As even irregular readers of this blog know, I have an abiding fascination with the question of how the wolf became the dog, or in the parlance of text messaging W2D. Why should the consummate ...

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 ...

When Montana and Idaho held their first regulated wolf hunts in 2009, one of their stated goals was to reduce pressure on ranchers. Rebounding wolf populations were killing livestock. Fewer wolves, ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.