Map by Jose Barrios, USFWS. From 2002 to 2014, the wild red wolf population consistently numbered over 100 animals. But starting in 2012, the population began to decline due to actions taken by the ...

This took place not in the remote backcountry of the Rocky Mountains, but in the flat and swampy terrain of eastern North Carolina, where the Service decided to release red wolves into the Alligator ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas company attempting to bring back extinct animals such as dire wolves and woolly mammoths, ...

Exclusive: Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm tells us why they made the dire wolf the first species to experience ...

“Muppet’s tragic death brings North Carolina’s beleaguered red wolves one step closer to extinction,” said Will Harlen, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The world’s most ...

Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant five ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— Five endangered red wolf pups have died after their father was killed by a vehicle in their last remaining refuge in eastern North Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed ...

In October 1990, Richard Mann shot a red wolf that he feared was threatening his cattle. The wolf was a member of an "experimental population" the federal Fish and Wildlife Service had introduced ...

The population peaked in North Carolina in 2006 at around 130, but has since declined to between 25 and 35 individuals. Red wolves grow up to 26 inches tall, and adults measure about four feet in ...