Scientists debunk decades-long study claiming wolves' reintroduction triggered a dramatic transformation in Yellowstone.

Previous research on the effect of wolves on the food web has been criticized, raising questions about the predator’s role in ...

In Yellowstone, the long, rising howl of a gray wolf has always felt like pure mystery, a sound that hints at meaning but ...

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

In movies and literature, a wolf’s haunting howl can signify danger or untamed nature. In real life, researchers in ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Hiking along the small, purling Blacktail Deer Creek, Douglas W. Smith, a wolf biologist, makes his way through a lush curtain of willows. Nearly absent for decades, ...

On four separate occasions, Wolf 907F seized power as the alpha female leader of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National Park. (National Park Service file photo courtesy of Jeremy ...

This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That's because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals' numbers.

On Christmas Day 2024, tragedy struck Yellowstone's Junction Butte wolf pack. The group's legendary one-eyed leader, Wolf 907F, died after a confrontation with a rival pack. Now, in a new video, ...

A new study compares Montanans’ tolerance for wolves versus their tolerance for hunting them. Its conclusions might surprise ...

On Dec. 11, 2025, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials captured and returned a wolf into Grand County, Colorado, that had ...