When a nature guide and his guests spotted a dark blotch of an animal waddling across a snowy road in Yellowstone National Park, they thought it was a young bear—at first.
The creature soon saw them parked in their Chevy Suburban, looked them straight in the eyes, and seemed to make a connection. It was then that tour guide MacNeil Lyons, 48, realized they were having a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a Yellowstone wolverine.
It was early March, and the owner of  tours was accompanying a father and his 9-year-old daughter on a sightseeing expedition. Hailing from Long Beach, the young lady was enthralled by the snow.