The scientific name for a wolf is Canis lupus. Interestingly, this name comes from Latin, where the word Canis means dog and ...

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for the ...

This story was originally published by Daily Montanan. A federal judge in Montana on Tuesday vacated the federal government’s determination that gray wolves in the Western United States do not need ...

A bill sponsored by Rep. Lauren Boebert that would remove the endangered status for gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act is making its way through Congress with the support of local elected ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alex Erwin, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you been hearing ...