Wolves have broader faces and shorter, rounded ears, whereas coyotes have slender faces, taller, pointed ears, and thinner ...

As hunting season gets under way, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is warning those with coyote tags to be aware of the differences between coyotes and wolves. Currently, the federal Endangered Species Act ...

The disappearance of wolves may have given coyotes the opportunity they needed. Starting around 1900, coyotes began expanding their range east and have now colonized nearly all of eastern North ...

Lawmakers introduced legislation that would require wildlife officials to collect DNA samples from any large wild doglike ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A panel of top scientists concluded Thursday that the endangered red wolf of the southeastern U.S. is a species unto itself, giving the beleaguered canine a scientific and political ...

Researchers are working to better understand how coyotes with red wolf DNA are adapting to coastal Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of the Texas-Louisiana Canid Project) A new kind of creature is making its ...

In a bipartisan effort to curb extreme cruelty to wildlife on federal lands, Reps. Val Hoyle, D-Oregon, Mike Lawler, R-New ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution provides interesting new evidence about the evolution of North American wolves, which has been a subject of debate among conservationists and taxonomists ...

Zephyr, a gray wolf, at the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem. The center has "ambassador wolves" for education purposes and also participates in captive breeding and reintroduction of Mexican ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Scientists confirmed that a large animal shot by a hunter in central New York was a wild gray wolf, the first verified and documented case of the species south of the St.