“Our Eastern Coyote (Canis latrans) … was first noticed around 1930 or so spreading East near the Great Lakes, as Western Coyotes wandered over and took over the areas vacated by most gray wolves.

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The coyote (Canis latrans) has emerged as nature’s ultimate adapter, expanding its range and population while other predators struggle or face extinction. From rural wilderness to urban centers, from ...

Grey Wolves. Image by Unsplash. The rumors about a new wolf species in Texas largely stem from misidentification and misunderstanding of canid taxonomy. What many people have reported as “wolves” in ...

My dog America, a full-on poodle, loves to stare into pines and oaks that quill out of a hillside down to the marsh. She’ll do this sitting on a comfy bed by a window, standing outside on a deck ...

Through chemical analyses, the team identified substantial contributions from salmon proteins in the bone, indicating that these ancient canids regularly fed on salmon—an unusual diet for canids of ...

Use hazing techniques to chase a coyote out of your yard. If you see a coyote passing through, bang pots and pans, yell, or use an air horn to scare it off. They typically are skittish and will flee.

Wild relatives called African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) do have the cuteness muscles — and now the Baylor team has shown that the coyote (Canis latrans) turns out to have them too.

Abundance of different cottonwood tree species when wolves were present and absent. (Ripple et al., Bioscience, 2024) Not only has removal of wolves messed with the web of connections stemming from ...