This article was originally featured on High Country News. Packs are to wolves as families are to humans: They’re the species’ most essential social structure. The dynamics of a wolf pack — who its ...

A wolf stands in the road at Yellowstone National Park. Data collected by researchers shows just over a third of the collared wolves living primarily in five protected national parks died of ...

New research shows how humans are a substantial source of mortality for wolves that live predominantly in national parks — and more importantly, that human-caused mortality triggers instability in ...

A few miles outside of Voyageurs National Park, a researcher found a female wolf curled up under a tree. The wolf had been shot and killed by a poacher in the spring of 2022. She was the breeding ...

If you're in Yellowstone and accidentally stumble across a wolf, the park recommends standing your ground, waving your arms and yelling. Throwing something at a wolf or using bear spray should be a ...

Wolves are amazing and magnificent carnivores. They are highly social, pack-living animals whose numbers have been decimated globally because of their predatory ways. While it's been known that human ...

A new study finds that wolves are much more likely to be pack leaders if they have been infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. What makes a good leader? Assertiveness? Empathy? What about - and ...

SPRINGERVILLE — Allison Greenleaf, a senior wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, had squeezed herself into a narrow hole dug among the rocks of a steep mountainside in Arizona's ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported late Monday that a new wolf family was confirmed this fall. The Grizzly pack consists of two adults and a pup who have established territory in ...