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What Is This Strange Creature Caught on Camera? Wolves, Coyotes, and Dogs All in One?
sporting features that resemble a coyote, wolf, and domestic dog. But is it a hybrid, or just an oddball of nature? A Puzzle in the Forest: The Mystery Animal The footage, released by the ...
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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
Today, wolf DNA has been found in “coyote” droppings as far south as Virginia. The hybrid’s scientific name is Canis Iatrans var., and it weighs about 55 pounds more than a true coyote.
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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 this week (July 27) in Science Advances. “Wolf ...