If signed, the law would boost funding for independent contractors to kill wolves and would allow for more than 90 percent of the population in the state to be taken by hunters.

Monitoring the comings and goings of aquatic life with traces of DNA in water has become an established biomonitoring technique, but scientists are now using environmental DNA to assess terrestrial animals.

The top carnivores in the high-altitude regions of Asia are uniquely adapted to life in low-oxygen environments.

Dogs have stronger facial muscles compared to wolves, giving them the sad or “puppy dog eyes” look.

The US Department of the Interior determined that the population has rebounded enough to no longer need Endangered Species Act protection; conservation biologists disagree.

Researchers plan to relocate mainland wolves to an island in Lake Superior in an effort to boost the near-extinct predator population and limit the growth of local moose herds.

Specialists from the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks are working to determine what creature a rancher shot and killed.

A federal court had ordered the Idaho Fish and Game Department to destroy data collected from a protected wilderness area. 

A US Court of Appeals ruled that the Interior Department acted prematurely in removing the animals from the endangered species list.

Researchers pinpoint the genes that make pooches so dang affable.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

The selection of traits suitable for human companionship may have dragged along some unfavorable alleles.

A genomic study suggests that dogs diverged from wolves in Southeast Asia 33,000 years ago, contrary to reports placing their origins elsewhere on the continent.

Researchers find high stress hormone levels in the hair of hunted wolves in Northern Canada.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

According to a new study, wolves can learn from humans.

New analysis suggests that domestic dogs evolved from European wolves that interacted with human hunter-gatherers.