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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two wolves walk through their enclosure in Hanau's Alte Fasanerie wildlife park. Wolves remain fearful of humans even in areas ...

It’s five thousand years ago, and a group of humans were living on a limestone rock in the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe rock. The island, Stora Karlsö, is a small one; barely a speck on the map, ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...

In September 2017 a close friend was killed in Rhodope Prefecture in Norhern Greece. Her death was initially reported as being due to an attack by wolves with the local coroner reported as saying that ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From their wolf ancestors to today’s sweet, loyal ...

Wolves are apex predators that shape entire ecosystems through their presence alone, acting as ecosystem engineers that ...

In her provocative new book, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Dove Neanderthals to Extinction, Penn State paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman attributes the demise of Neanderthals around 40,000 ...