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 ...

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

Archaeologists excavating a remote island cave have found unexpected evidence that ancient humans hunted with partially domesticated wolves.

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, ...

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 ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog breeds have detectable traces of wolf ancestry, remnants of ancient ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that humans living thousands of years ago may have kept wolves close by—long before dogs became our loyal companions. The discovery comes from two ancient ...

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

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 young girl has suffered injuries in a savage wolf attack at a Greek holiday resort. The five-year-old was reportedly holidaying with her family when the wild beast struck at the popular destination ...

Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 years ago hasn’t been as rare as scientists assumed.