Yellowstone National Park sees millions of tourists every single year, but only a lucky fraction ever get a front-row seat to ...

Getting rare earth minerals from mine waste, and decoding the language of the wolves. Montana researchers search for ways to refine rare earth elements from toxic mine waste. Plus, a Paradise Valley ...

Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are ...

Yellowstone wolf watchers were gathered in awe on the morning of Oct. 6, ogling a pack of at least five black wolves roaming through the sagebrush near Lamar Valley. But the crowd soon saw something ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...