On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Gray wolves are hunting sea otters. Scientists are studying how land predators adapt to ocean hunting and what this means for ecosystems.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plumet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Hunters will now get cash and other incentives to kill wolves under Alaska's predator-control program that aims to protect moose populations, state officials said on ...

Wolves are wild canids primarily found in North America, Europe, and Asia. They live in diverse habitats, including forests, mountains, grasslands, steppes, wetlands, tundra, and even deserts. There ...

Two people were bit by a wolf in interior Alaska on Monday, according to the Alaska Wildlife Troopers. The attack occurred on the side of the Dalton Highway near mile marker 37 around 3 p.m. Officials ...

The Alaska Board of Game held deliberations on Monday evening and Tuesday morning over regulations affecting state-managed wildlife harvests in the Ketchikan-area Unit 1A and Prince of Wales Island-ar ...