Leaving humans seething in pain ... For instance, a few hairier wolf spiders falling on the bigger side of the spectrum could ...

While the more recent period likely saw humans selectively breeding ... self-domesticated might give the wrong impression—like one day, a wolf just decided to play fetch for mammoth scraps.

Werewolf stories aren’t about transforming into half-human/half-canine ... and one gets the distinct impression that Whannell’s interpretation of a “wolf man” may not demonize wolves ...

but Lon Chaney Jr. makes an indelible impression as Larry Talbot, a fish out of water in his ancestral Wales home even before his fateful encounter with a very particular kind of wolf.

For one thing, the wolf was domesticated at a time when modern humans were not very tolerant of carnivorous competitors. In fact, after modern humans arrived in Europe around 43,000 years ago ...

Yet, the NYPL adds, "There are some things about werewolves that stay consistent: the fact that they transform into wolves or wolf/human hybrids, their allergy to silver/silver bullets ...