Famous Yellowstone wolf comeback story faces scrutiny after re-analysis finds 'circular reasoning'

Famous Yellowstone wolf comeback story faces scrutiny after re-analysis finds 'circular reasoning'

For years, Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction has been held up as a classic case of predators transforming a landscape. But as Science Daily details, a new review of the evidence says one of the best-known versions of that story might just be a little too good to be true. What's happening? In a peer-reviewed study published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers said a widely discussed 2025 paper on Yellowstone wolves used methods that c…