From Ice Age hunting partners to modern-day pets, wolves have been intertwined with human survival, culture, and even our dogs’ DNA. Ancient remains reveal they were transported, provisioned, and ...

2) Wolves have been the closest companions of humans and we should not persecute them, but honor them for what they have meant to us as a species over the last 40,000 years. You discuss and criticize ...

Thousands of years ago, humans and wolves may have shared more than just territory—they may have shared meals, care, and even journeys across open water. Archaeologists on a remote Baltic island have ...

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...

Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...

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 ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...

A new study shows humans are responsible for the vast majority of wolves deaths in the Upper Midwest, with most of the human-caused deaths being illegal kills.