The Alaska wilderness has always had a way of humbling the assumptions of scientists. But even by that standard, what researchers have documented on the remote islands of southeastern Alaska over the ...

On a remote Alaskan shoreline, biologists watched a white wolf drag something enormous onto a sandbar and begin a half-hour struggle that would overturn decades of assumptions about what wolves are ...

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of time ...

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Some coastal wolves in Alaska, U.S., have toxic levels of mercury in their bodies after shifting from a terrestrial diet of deer and moose to a marine diet heavy with sea otters, new research finds.

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 ...

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 ...

The post In Alaska, Wolves Have Switched to a Prey Nobody Expected Them to Hunt appeared first on A-Z Animals. On Alaska's Prince of Wales Island, the boundary between land and ocean is blurring in an ...