"Painter et al. claim that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park has produced a strong trophic cascade ...

In 1995, Yellowstone National Park became the centre of a conservation experiment that would later be celebrated across the ...

The issue of the reintroduction of wolves continues to find itself in E-R news articles and letters to the E-R. It is true that – since the introduction of the grey wolf (in 1995) – that the elk herd ...

One of the most celebrated claims about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing a major challenge. Scientists say the study behind the famous trophic cascade story relied on flawed methods that overstated the ...

Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction has often been described as one of conservation’s clearest trophic-cascade success stories.

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A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...

Deep in the heart of Yellowstone National Park, audio recorders roughly the size of hardcover books are documenting wolf barks, elk bugles and bird chirps 24 hours of the day, seven days a week, 365 ...

In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...

A flare up of a disease that’s especially lethal to wolf pups took a toll on Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park wolf numbers in 2025, reducing biologists’ counts to a level last seen when wolves ...