On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

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Humans cared for wolves long before dogs emerged, study finds - New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...

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 ...

Introduction: The beginnings -- 1. The spaniels of San Marcos : what is a dog and who cares? -- 2. Cooperation between species -- 3. Homo canis : why humans are different than all other primates -- 4.

In September 2017 a close friend was killed in Rhodope Prefecture in Norhern Greece. Her death was initially reported as being due to an attack by wolves with the local coroner reported as saying that ...

Fear of the fabled ‘big bad wolf’ has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict. Humans both fear wolves and, ...

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 ...

For decades, the Greek wolf (Canis lupus) was a creature of remote mountain peaks, pushed to the fringes of mountain ranges ...

Brian Hare began studying dog intelligence as an undergraduate at Emory University in the 1990s, after realizing that Oreo, his Labrador retriever, had a remarkable ability. Unlike other animals, even ...