We’re looking at lots of different animals and trying to get a sense of if there are geographic hot spots with really high red wolf ancestry,” Bridget vonHoldt told SYFY WIRE back in 2022.

The red wolf story has taken some dark turns. The species was declared extinct in the wild in 1980, but a conservation program reintroduced them to North Carolina starting in 1987.

During the 2021-2022 breeding season, the number of red wolf breeding pairs jumped to 38, the agency said. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service "As of August 2021, there are approximately 241 red wolves ...

The red wolf program might seem messy now, but its work to resurrect an animal that went extinct in the wild was a minor miracle. For nearly a century, red wolves were gunned down by order of ...

F or the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf is echoing once more—this time, from within a secretive nature preserve in the United States. The predator, long thought extinct ...

The red wolf once roamed much of the southeastern United States, but was placed on the endangered species list in the early 1970s — the population decimated by shrinking territory, ...

The red wolf once roamed much of the southeastern United States, but was placed on the endangered species list in the early 1970s — the population decimated by shrinking territory, ...

Scientists are hopeful that the endangered red wolf population, absent from the wild for decades, could be revived now that a significant portion of its DNA has been found in wild coyote populations.

A native Tar Heel, the red wolf has seen its population severely drop due to hunting and land development. From 1987 to 2000, 15 red wolves died from gunshot wounds, an average of 1.2 per year.

Conservationists have filed an Endangered Species Act lawsuit this week against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to protect the world's rarest wolf species, the red wolf.