People living in Eastern Canada and U.S. are probably familiar with the smart, adaptable wild canine that lives in their forests, neighborhood parks and even cities. What they may not know is that ...

Over the course of the past two centuries, a slow but sure transformation – aided by the growth of human civilization – has led to the creation of a hybrid canine species that is rapidly expanding in ...

New DNA evidence reveals that coyotes have bred with wolves in the the northeastern United States, turning mice-eating coyotes into much larger animals with a hunger for big prey, such as deer. The ...

Reports of “coywolves” are on the rise in the Philly area. You’re probably wondering what a coywolf is – and we’re here to help. Apparently, it’s a mix between a dog, a coyote and/or (maybe?) a wolf. ...

For more than a decade now, coywolves have been living in Vermont. A what? In fact, it is a hybrid of wolf, coyote and dog. And it is a creature of which state officials are quite mindful these days. ...

reports that in the relative absence of mountain lions and Eastern wolves, a new breed of canine, known as the coywolf (commonly called the Eastern coyote) has established itself as the apex predator ...

DETROIT — Phil Myers had heard the stories from Cheboygan County farmers: Tales of odd, oversized animals that looked bigger than a coyote, but smaller than a wolf, and hunted in packs — and how ...

The coywolf sounds like something out of a science fiction, but it's just part coyote (Canis latrans), part gray wolf (Canis lupus) and part domestic dog (which is technically a subspecies of the wolf ...

The coywolf is a coyote-wolf hybrid found throughout eastern North America, from Canada south to Virginia. For decades, people incorrectly labeled coywolves as eastern coyotes. However, the large size ...

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...