News Summary

• An image appearing to show a mountain lion raising wolf cubs in Yellowstone National Park circulated online.
• Snopes readers sent emails asking us to look into whether the story was true.
• A closer inspection of the picture with human eyes showed various red flags.
• We have been unable to reach StoryTime for confirmation as to whether it created the image and if the account used artificial intelligence to do so.
• As such, we concur with the park and rate this image fake.
• For further reading, we previously looked into a rumor that a video authentically showed mountain lions mysteriously migrating south from Yellowstone to Utah in July 2025.