From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

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, ...

DEAR READERS: Please read this excerpt from the study “Relationships between Indigenous American Peoples and Wolves” by Brandy Fogg et al., published in 2023 in the Journal of Ethnobiology. The ...

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 ...

In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain ...

When Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences' announced it was bringing back dire wolves from extinction, lots of people wondered if this was fact or fantasy. William Lynn, a research scientist at Clark ...

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 ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. By Lesley Evans Ogden Lesley Evans Ogden previously ...

Humans have always had an emotional relationship with predators. We both revere and demonize them. We buy more than 100 million teddy bears annually for our children, while 50,000 real bears are ...

As one of the most widely distributed land animals, gray wolves are very adaptable and can flourish in a wide variety of habitats. Gray wolves are very social animals and live in packs, but pack sizes ...

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 ...