For thousands of years, wolves occupied a range of North American habitats stretching from Arctic tundra to deserts. Their numbers were drastically reduced by hunting and habitat loss, and it has ...

Fear of the fabled ‘big bad wolf’ has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict. Humans both fear wolves and, ...

For the fourth year in a row, Oregon's wolf population stayed almost exactly the same, according to the annual wolf report released Friday. The minimum number of wolves roaming the state in 2023 was ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

Werewolves often stalk the pages of horror stories, resurfacing each Halloween to send shivers down our spines. But what if one such tale wasn’t legend at all? In 1820s Sweden, a wolf launched a ...

In what's believed to be a first, a wolf at Michigan's Isle Royale National Park was killed by National Park Service officials after it repeatedly was found taking human food from campsites and other ...

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...