A genetic reservoir of red wolf “ghost DNA” has been found hidden in coyote-wolf hybrids in southwestern Louisiana. The long-lost genes represent genetic diversity that experts thought ...

Coyotes with higher percentages of red wolf autosomal ancestry were also found ... Previous conservation paradigm suggested that hybrid species were a threat to endangered parental species ...

The red wolf, with its russet fur and piercing golden ... Scientists have responded with creative strategies—removing coyote hybrids, using sterilized coyotes as “placeholders” to keep ...

"They trapped everything from coyotes, to dogs, to red wolves, and hybrids in between all of those options," vonHoldt says. From those hundreds of canids, USFWS bred forty with the most red wolf ...

Maybe the red wolf dies, because that's what's been happening for red wolves, but all of those genes that it just passed on to its coyote hybrid offspring, now get to circulate and we've ...

You see gray, red, tan, white ... populations sporadically interbred with the waning wolf populations, giving rise to hybrid eastern coyotes. Now, eastern coyotes, which predominate in states ...

If I had my way, red wolves would roam in Arkansas, but it won't happen. Successful gray wolf reintroductions in the West give us false hope that red wolves could be successfully introduced in the ...

The Texas Gulf Coast is home to a wide range of wildlife, including so-called "ghost wolves," a hybrid of a coyote and red wolf roaming Galveston. Residents and visitors of Galveston Island have ...

Some exhibit a pale gray pelage similar to western coyotes, but others are blond, red, and even black ... The laws around breeding and raising coyote-dog and wolf-dog hybrids as pets in the U.S. vary ...