State and federal wildlife agencies have fostered 27 captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups into wild dens this spring, the most wolves released in the program to bolster the endangered population’s ...

ST. LOUIS — One of Missouri's most important and unique animals was nearly driven to extinction due to human persecution and expansion. Four of the species' newest members bring new hope to the fight ...

Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson/500px Prime via Getty Images Dogs were the first of any species that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A match made in the wilds of New Mexico? An endangered Mexican wolf captured last weekend after wandering hundreds of miles from Arizona to New Mexico is now being readied for ...

An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of ...

Durham's Museum of Life and Science has announced the birth of three red wolf pups — all joining one of North Carolina's most critically endangered species. The three pups were born May 3 to the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Scientists confirmed that a large animal shot by a hunter in central New York was a wild gray wolf, the first verified and documented case of the species south of the St.