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 ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

The story of how dogs transitioned from wild predators to humanity’s most loyal companions is a tale that spans tens of thousands of years. While the full details are still shrouded in mystery, ...

A siberian wolf at a kill. Source: Thomas Wallace Knox/Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons I was greeted the other morning by an email from a friend telling me that a paper published that day in the ...

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 ...

People’s tolerance for wolves goes up when they see one. It also goes up when they don’t. That apparent contradiction explains why attitudes toward wolves have grown consistently friendlier over the ...