Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are ...
Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...
Over the last three decades, Yellowstone National Park has undergone an ecological cascade. As elk numbers fell, aspen and willow trees thrived. This, in turn, allowed beaver numbers to increase, ...
In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...
Yellowstone National Park sees millions of tourists every single year, but only a lucky fraction ever get a front-row seat to ...
When two apex predators confront each other in Yellowstone National Park, the result is nothing short of nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat type wildlife drama. There’s a new video of an encounter that ...
Deep in the heart of Yellowstone National Park, audio recorders roughly the size of hardcover books are documenting wolf barks, elk bugles and bird chirps 24 hours of the day, seven days a week, 365 ...
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% ...
In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...