Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are worried that local wolf populations have become too comfortable with humans, which is exposing them to new and needless risk. Those concerns were brought ...

Wolves show signs of attachment and affection to human foster parents, researchers have found. Researchers asked a group of volunteers to hand raise wolf puppies, and then tested them to see attached ...

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, ...

As wolves return to parts of their historical ranges in Europe and North America, there’s growing concern that the predators are becoming less fearful of people. But a recent study from Poland shows ...

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 ...

Researchers used mathematical models to show wolves could have turned into dogs by scavenging near human settlements over 15,000 years. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

Despite wolves being dangerous pack-hunting predators, these large animals were the first species domesticated by humans — but how and why we came to rear dogs remains unclear. Paleolithic humans and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

As the human population grows and urban areas become ever more expansive, our settlements are coming into closer contact with large carnivores such as wolves, foxes, dingoes and bears. The gray wolf ...

New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...