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In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation ...

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

Wolves remain fearful of humans even in areas where they are protected, according to a study published on Thursday in the Current Biology journal. The study finds that the predators deliberately avoid ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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