A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves. Dire wolves, with reddish ...

Sun., July 14, 2013 Wolf skulls at the Track Education Center and Museum in Gardiner, Mont., tell compelling stories to experts who study how disease and injury affect behavior.

No one knows for sure when or where the first dogs came to be, but most evolutionary biologists agree that the wolf probably made the first move and that the draw was the food humans discarded.

That’s an issue of scientific debate, with a new study recently published by University of Washington researchers. Skip to main content Spokane, Washington Est. May 19, 1883 ...

By the 1960s wolves persisted in the Lower 48 only in northern Minnesota. But with protections, including the 1973 federal Endangered Species Act, the Minnesota wolves increased in number, dispersed ...

An 8,100-year-old canine jawbone recovered in interior Alaska in June 2023. The bone, along with a 12,000-year-old leg bone discovered at a nearby site, are the earliest evidence that ancestors of ...