Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species. Dire wolves became extinct towards the ...

Are gray wolves on the path to recovery in Washington state? In 2024, the state’s gray wolf population decreased for the first time in 16 years. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

A flare up of a disease that’s especially lethal to wolf pups took a toll on Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park wolf numbers in 2025, reducing biologists’ counts to a level last seen when wolves ...

The gray wolf population in Washington has experienced positive growth since breeding pairs returned to the state in 2008. That positive growth was unexpectedly stunted in 2024 when the population ...

Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...

Just over two years into Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort, 12 of the 25 wolves brought from Oregon and British Columbia have died. Colorado Parks and Wildlife maintains that while the level of ...

Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state's wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf ...

Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf ...