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 ...

Dogs are one of humankind's greatest historical mysteries. Nobody is quite sure where they came from, but a new analysis of ancient wolf DNA points to somewhere in Asia. A cohort of geneticists, led ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A species that hasn't existed since the Earth's last Ice Age has been "resurrected" by scientists. The dire wolf, which died out ...

Wolves in India, like the pack that raised Mowgli in "The Jungle Book," can often feel disconnected from both the research ...

It’s no secret that dogs used to be wolves – a once-wild species domesticated over generations until it became humanity’s best and most understanding friend. But the precise route from point A to ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – In 1877, five years after Yellowstone became the nation’s first national park, an unlikely band of visitors showed up at its western border. Chased by a phalanx of ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...