In the heart of Wyoming lies Yellowstone National Park, a sprawling ecosystem that has captivated millions of visitors for centuries. However, its delicate balance faced a near collapse before a ...

A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their ...

Over the last three decades, Yellowstone National Park has undergone an ecological cascade. As elk numbers fell, aspen and willow trees thrived. This, in turn, allowed beaver numbers to increase, ...

Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a ...

The Yellowstone bubble Wolf 1331F’s fate was unusual only in that she made it so far north. When wolves leave the park, they die — often, quickly. Yellowstone’s roughly 100 wolves are among the most ...

A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...

In movies and literature, a wolf’s haunting howl can signify danger or untamed nature. In real life, researchers in Yellowstone National Park are analyzing those howls with cutting-edge AI technology ...

In Yellowstone, the long, rising howl of a gray wolf has always felt like pure mystery, a sound that hints at meaning but keeps its distance. Now artificial intelligence is starting to pull that ...