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Known As Coywolves, These Creatures Are Hybrids Of Coyotes And Wolves, And Over The Past Century, They Have Slowly Taken Over Much Of Eastern North America
and it weighs about 55 pounds more than a true coyote. It also has a larger jaw, a bushier tail, smaller ears, and longer legs. The coywolf’s genetic makeup consists of the eastern wolf ...
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Coyote harvested in Michigan's lower peninsula revealed to be gray wolf, DNR investigating
Eastern coyotes typically weigh between 25 pounds ... A series of genetic tests on the harvested animal confirmed that it was a gray wolf, a species not sighted in that part of Michigan since ...
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Wolf Species Are Part Coyote
But an analysis of their genomes has revealed a surprise: they are all actually one type of wolf, with varying amounts of coyote DNA, a study reported ... analyzed the genomes of 12 gray wolves, six ...
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Another Wild Wolf Killed in New York, Radio-Isotope Test Confirms
Northwest Territories and eastern gray wolf DNA. After the Department of Conservation separately sent a tissue sample to a different laboratory and claimed the animal was a coyote, the Northeast ...
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Red Wolves
In 2016, the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued a ... protections from red wolves have long argued that the animal is a coyote subspecies or a gray wolf–coyote hybrid ...