Wolves are returning to European farmland – but they're not motivated by a taste for sheep

Wolves killing livestock are seizing an opportunity for a meal in a landscape with little natural prey.

Peter Sunde, Professor of Applied Wildlife Ecology, Aarhus University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 ~7 min

Dog coat patterns hold clues to their wolf ancestors

Dogs share one of their coat patterns, dominant yellow, with arctic white wolves, research finds.

Andy Fell-UC Davis • futurity
Aug. 13, 2021 ~5 min


Dog, wolf, or coyote? Just a little DNA can determine

Forensics specialists could use a commercially available assay to determine if a sample comes from dog, wolf, or coyote.

Tracey Reeves-JHU • futurity
July 21, 2021 ~5 min

Social lives of wolves affect spread of pathogens

The social lives of wolves affect how disease spreads among them, new research shows. The findings could apply to any social species.

Sara LaJeunesse-Penn State • futurity
March 25, 2021 ~6 min

When dogs bark, are they using words to communicate?

Dogs' barks say a lot about how they're feeling.

Clive Wynne, Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University • conversation
Feb. 8, 2021 ~4 min

Dire wolves weren’t closely related to today’s wolves

Dire wolves, the extinct species made famous in "Game of Thrones," were so different from grey wolves they couldn't breed with them, DNA sequencing shows.

Keith Randall-Texas A&M • futurity
Jan. 14, 2021 ~5 min

Dire wolves were a distant relative of wolves today

Dire wolves, the extinct species made famous in "Game of Thrones," were so different from grey wolves they couldn't breed with them, DNA sequencing shows.

Keith Randall-Texas A&M • futurity
Jan. 14, 2021 ~5 min

Dire wolves went extinct 13,000 years ago but thanks to new genetic analysis their true story can now be told

Our research shows dire wolves lived in the tropics not the Arctic, and were not especially close relatives of the grey wolf.

Laurent Frantz, Professor of Palaeogenomics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich • conversation
Jan. 13, 2021 ~6 min


Will Colorado bring back wolves? It's up to voters

For the first time in the US, a ballot measure will ask voters whether to restore wolves to a place where they've been eradicated. Coloradans have strong views on both sides.

Kevin Crooks, Professor of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology , Colorado State University • conversation
Oct. 16, 2020 ~11 min

Do dogs really see in just black and white?

Your faithful friend's view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.

Nancy Dreschel, Associate Teaching Professor of Small Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University • conversation
July 2, 2020 ~6 min

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