Long before agriculture or permanent villages, humans began forming lasting relationships with certain animal species. The ...

Prehistoric wolf remains found on a Baltic island suggest that humans cared for wolves thousands of years before dogs fully emerged, according to a new study. Archaeologists found the remains, dated ...

Wolves are apex predators that shape entire ecosystems through their presence alone, acting as ecosystem engineers that ...

National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen on Dec. 16 to explore what it means to be human in ...

Let me paint you a picture: Imagine you're an ancient hunter surveying the icy tundra of what is now California's Sierra Nevada. Covered in furs, armed only with the tools you've made by hand, and ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...