Also known as the polar wolf or white wolf, the Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos) is a subspecies of the gray wolf that ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Gretchen Roffler ...

On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters. This surprising dietary shift appears to have notable implications for both ecosystems and wolf ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wolf on Pleasant Island, Alaska, with a sea otter head in its mouth. Gretchen Roffler When Alaska’s wolves began eating sea ...

Scientists show that wolves that are eating sea otters in Alaska have much higher concentrations of mercury than those eating other prey such as deer and moose. In late 2020, a female coastal wolf ...

For many years the islands off Alaska’s coast have enjoyed a relatively steady balance between small critters and large, prey species and predators. This was especially true for the largest predator ...

Along a remote stretch of the Alaskan coast, gray wolves have quietly rewritten the rules of what a top land predator eats. Packs that once relied on deer are now regularly killing sea otters in the ...

This story has been corrected to note Prince of Wales wolves represent less than 20% of the subspecies population in both Alaska and British Columbia. The initial version of this article neglected to ...

A recent lobbying, fundraising and advertising campaign by Defenders of Wildlife encourages Congress to strictly limit Alaska’s ability to control its abundant wolf populations. The campaign skews ...

The Salty Dog Saloon landmark on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, at the end of Kenai Peninsula and surrounded by Kachemak Bay. (Lawrence Weslowski Jr./Dreamstime/TNS) A judge has ordered the Alaska ...