We’ve all heard the term alpha wolf, and some of us may even refer to ourselves as one. The concept has been popularized in ...

A recent New Yorker essay called "The Myth of the Alpha Wolf" by Rivka Galchen caught my attention and that of numerous people who emailed me about it. My purpose here is to clarify a number of points ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On four separate occasions, Wolf 907F seized power as the alpha female leader of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National ...

Source: Greystone Books, with permission. Rick McIntyre, who has logged more than 100,000 sightings of Yellowstone's wolves, is a legend―or most people would say the legend―among wolf researchers.

A tense scene unfolded in Yellowstone National Park when a group of gray wolves from the Junction Butte pack attempted to hunt a young bison calf, only to be thwarted by the sheer power and teamwork ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYO. (Idaho Capital Sun) – Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of ...

Editor’s note: This is the third installment of Howl, a five-part written series and podcast season produced in partnership between the Idaho Capital Sun, States Newsroom and Boise State Public Radio.