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A National Park First: 'Like Something Out of a Horror Movie'

"It was like something out of a horror movie." That's not how you want to remember a camping trip with your husband and two young sons, but per a Facebook post by Elisa Rispoli, that's how things went...

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This Pup Is 18K Years Old

Daww. Melting permafrost in Siberia has revealed a well-preserved pup who was born about 18,000 years ago. In fact, the little guy still has his teeth, limbs, nose, whiskers, and eyelashes, reports the...

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Cubs Can Be Killed in Alaska Dens Under Trump Rule Change

Two federal agencies are relaxing Obama-era regulations on wildlife, now allowing for more hunting and trapping at national preserves throughout Alaska. The Alaska Daily News reports that the rolling...

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Study of Dire Wolf DNA Has Surprising Results

Biologists have long observed that a nature has a tendency to evolve things into crabs . It also appears to like making wolves. Scientists say they were very surprised when an analysis of the genome of...

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Critically Endangered Wolves Released in North Carolina

Government wildlife officials have released two more critically endangered red wolves into the wild in North Carolina and could place several more captive-bred wolves into the habitat this year,...

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Hunters' Quota Was 119 Wolves. They Blew Past It

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved 1,547 permits to kill a quota of 119 wolves during a weeklong hunt. What happened instead: 216 wolves were killed in less than 60 hours, per the...

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Wolves Attack Worker at Center Where Lion Killed Intern

A worker has been injured by two wolves at the same North Carolina exotic animal center where an escaped lion killed a college intern in 2018. Authorities say animal keeper Hayley Quay was bitten on...

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90% of Idaho's Wolves Could Be Killed Under Fast-Tracked Bill

A fast-tracked bill allowing for the killing of up to 90% of Idaho's wolves cleared the state Senate 26-7 Wednesday and could come up for a House vote on Friday, the AP reports. Supporters say the...

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'Landscape of Fear' Cuts Vehicle-Deer Collisions

Ecologist Rolf Peterson remembers driving remote stretches of road in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcasses. That changed after gray wolves arrived in the region from...

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3 Gray Wolf Pups Give Hope to Colorado Wildlife Watchers

Three pups born in Colorado made history. Gray wolves, while no longer on the endangered species list, are still very rare—and protected in Colorado. A plan to reintroduce them to the area has been...

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Protections Are Eased, and Wolf Population Takes a Hit

As many as one-third of Wisconsin's gray wolves likely died at the hands of humans in the months after the federal government announced it was ending legal protections, according to a new study....

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Critics Rip USDA's 'Inhumane' Killing of Wolf Pups in Idaho

For students at Idaho's Timberline High School, a wolf pack roaming nearby in Boise National Forest offered the opportunity to study the animals, and so they've tracked the group since 2003. This...

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In Oregon, 'Egregious' Poisoning Kills 8 Wolves

Officials in Oregon are asking for public assistance to locate the person or persons responsible for poisoning eight wolves in the eastern part of the state earlier this year. The Oregon State Police...

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'Extraordinary Number' of Yellowstone Wolves Killed

Twenty of Yellowstone National Park's renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months—the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were...

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Bystander Reported a Wolf Pack. The Reality Was 'More Hilarious'

People tend to see what they want to see. For one particular person along a Colorado roadway, what they apparently wanted to see was a pack of wolves, but what they actually spotted in the wild was...

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There's an Investigation Into the Killing of Wolf 1233

Hunters killed a record 25 Yellowstone wolves last season , a figure that represents one-fifth of the park's wolf population and is more than double the previous high of a decade ago. As a deep dive at...

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Emboldened Wolves to Be Shot at With Paintballs

A recent video showing a wolf strolling casually past a worried family of four in a national park in the Netherlands shows how some of the country's wolves have lost their fear of humans. Hoping to see...

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Wolf Researchers: 'We Just Open-Mouthed Stared at Each Other'

What compels some animals—maybe even humans—to become leaders of their pack? A new study suggests the answer could be surprisingly simple: a brain parasite. Researchers studying Yellowstone wolves...

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