The gray wolf population has increased in California after vanishing for nearly a century, but livestock farms have been ...

Currently, gray wolves are considered endangered in most of the contiguous U.S. It’s usually illegal to kill a wolf unless it’s done to defend a human, or in some cases, livestock.

Gray wolves were believed hunted to extinction in California by the 1920s. There were no confirmed wolf sightings until 2011, when a wolf (OR-7) left Oregon and began a four-month roam through ...

California wildlife officials reported the confirmation of three new gray wolf packs in the state's northern counties, raising the number of established packs to 10—a level not seen in over a ...

"Colossal has said that the gray wolf and dire wolf genomes are 99.5% identical, but that is still 12,235,000 individual differences," Nic Lawrence, a paleogeneticist and associate professor at ...

Gray wolves are an endangered and protected species since they returned to California in 2011, almost 90 years after they were hunted to extinction.