Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are ...
Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...
A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% ...
The award-winning documentary “Lost Wolves of Yellowstone,” in IMAX, is now showing on San Diego’s largest IMAX screen, in the giant dome of the Fleet Science ...
SALT LAKE CITY — There are debates about how wolves first started down the long path to domestication some 15,000 years ago. Some researchers think they did it to themselves, scavenging near human ...
A flare up of a disease that’s especially lethal to wolf pups took a toll on Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park wolf numbers in 2025, reducing biologists’ counts to a level last seen when wolves ...
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In a formal comment published in Global Ecology and Conservation, scientists from Utah State University and Colorado State University argue that a 2025 paper by Ripple et al. overstated how much wolf ...