Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early wolf management.

On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters between humans and large carnivores in northern Europe. The remains, recovered ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

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, ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that humans living thousands of years ago may have kept wolves close by—long ...

Colossal Biosciences' feat of genetic engineering has people talking, but not every scientist is on board with its claim of having brought back the dire wolf. Reading time 8 minutes The single ...

What is a Wolf Dog? Wolf Dogs—or Wolfdogs—are hybrid canids with any combination of domestic dog breed and wild wolf parentage. True Wolf Dogs have recent wolf ancestry, but there are varieties of ...

Washington's wolf population saw a significant decline in 2024, dropping by at least 9.44%, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The number of successful breeding pairs also ...

Wolves are returning across Europe—but not to the UK and Ireland, where public support is lukewarm at best. Ecologists point ...