It's not unknown for wolves to kill other animals but this one had messed with the wrong pony: Dolly was the beloved pet of Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.

Wolves were more or less wiped out across most of western Europe in the 19th century. Local legend has it that the last wolf in Belgium, for example, was shot by King Leopold II in the 1890s.

The European gray wolf in the animal park of the Monts de Gueret in France, Nov. 3, 2015. (Chris Oxford/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — Dozens of countries on Tuesday ...

There are more than 20,000 wolves in the European Union today, a population that has almost doubled in the last 10 years. Last century, this species was hunted almost to extinction. But in 1979 ...