As coyotes become more common in Connecticut, officials say they can pose risks to pets, livestock and occasionally humans.

Eastern coyotes were, and still are, sometimes colloquially referred to as coydogs, particularly on the leading edge of their eastward expanding range. Some of this is due to our need to ascribe ...

Adult eastern coyotes typically range from 34 to 50 pounds, though they have been known to reach 75 pounds. On average, they stand two feet tall at the shoulders and have a body length of 42-52 ...

Total body lengths of eastern coyotes range from 48 to 60 inches. Their pelage colors range from light blond to reddish blond to gray, and from dark brown washed with black to black.

Eastern coyotes hunt a wide range of animals, including small rodents but also deer. Two eastern coyotes took down this deer in eastern Canada, according to the photographer. rvewong/flickr, CC BY-SA.

Read Next: The Best Coyote Calibers. Technically, all Eastern coyotes are part coyote, part wolf, and part dog. Wildlife biologists believe this is because coyotes occasionally interbred with wolves ...

First they were coy-dogs. Then coy-wolves. Now scientists believe the animal biologists call the eastern coyote is in fact a mix of all three canid species. In the largest study of its type ...

Coyotes have expanded their range to 49 states—and show no signs of stopping. We kill more than 400,000 a year, but this adaptable predator is thriving beyond all expectations. Now, it's poised ...

After visiting with friends who own a small farm along the edge of a mountain, my wife Karen and I were preparing to climb into our pickup when the first ...

Coyotes gradually extended their range eastward after wolves became extinct in the eastern U.S. and southern portions of Canada. Coyotes first appeared in the early 1900s in western Ontario, in the ...

The biggest difference between a wolf and a coyote is size. Even compared to eastern coyotes, which are bigger than their western counterparts, gray wolves, on average, weigh twice as much and are ...