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 ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With American wolf populations on the rise in places like the Upper Midwest and the Mountain West, more and more folks are curious: what do wolves eat? Maybe you have direct experience with wolf kills ...

Mercury-poisoned wolves in Alaska are providing evidence about how the heavy metal can travel through the atmosphere and show up in the food chain, according to findings published by Mongabay and ...

After eradicating their deer prey, wolves on a remote Alaskan island have turned to voraciously hunting and consuming sea otters as their main food source, a new study has revealed. The discovery, ...