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.

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, ...

Exclusive: Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm tells us why they made the dire wolf the first species to experience “de-extinction,” and how the tech offers a door to save the red wolf.

Three male Red Wolf pups were born on May 3 at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. Their birth marks a significant effort to preserve the endangered species.

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.

These babies are paw-sitively adorable. The St. Louis Zoo welcomed four American red wolf pups this spring — marking a significant population boost for the world’s most endangered wolf species ...