The wolves’ diet mainly consists of large ungulates such as moose, caribou, deer, elk and wild boar but they are also known ...

California has a growing number of gray wolves howling in the wild and have been tracked for more than a dozen years. Gray wolves are native to California, but starting in the mid-19th century, ...

Gray wolves protected stay on the Endangered Species Act of 1973 may be coming to a permanent end. A forced Minnesota hunting season could follow. The ESA aimed to protect the apex predator from ...

ORR, Minn. – Wildlife researchers often focus on rates of survival and causes of mortality. Sometimes one animal serves to illustrate both. Within minutes of the start of a field expedition in ...

Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing ...