Red wolves have, as you might’ve guessed ... debate about whether or not they were actually some sort of gray wolf-coyote ...

This finding is a key conservation victory—as those seeking to strip ESA protections from red wolves have long argued that the animal is a coyote subspecies or a gray wolf–coyote hybrid that does not ...

“Without more reintroductions the red wolf could soon be extinct in the wild ... such as releases of captive-bred wolves and sterilization of coyotes to prevent hybrid animals from harming the gene ...

Red wolves are among the most endangered carnivores in the world. Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf ...