The ancient remains of two gray wolves were found in a cave on Stora Karlso, a small Swedish island located in the Baltic Sea ...

With a distribution that once stretched around the entire Northern Hemisphere, spanning Arctic tundra, temperate forests, ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

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, ...

With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

A new international study led by researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, shows that wolves living in different parts of the world are not anatomically identical. Their skulls differ in shape ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...

Humans' association with canines has always fascinated researchers. The historical account of history over generations was always about how wolves evolved into dogs through interactions with humans, ...

Government urges visitors not to approach or feed wolves as it manages safety amid growing population ...

The island measures just 2.5sq km and there is no evidence of native land mammals. Because of this isolation, researchers believe the wolves were brought in by people, most likely on ships. One ...