Shepherd is just one of the dozens of voices in the book, he is also the person to whom the book is dedicated and about whom ...

When two different species procreate, hybridization is at play. It is a practice that is not uncommon in the wild but is far ...

Humans and wolves co-evolved, influencing each other’s development, a relationship that led to the domesticated dog. But what about the wolves that continued to live in the wild? Scientists once ...

It leaves the impression that they are a near 50-50 mix of wolf and coyote, and that just isn't the case, he said. "They are eastern coyotes," Gehrt said.

This eastern coyote is party coyote, part gray wolf, part domestic dog — and yet this hybrid is not a new species. Fiona M. Donnelly / Shutterstock ...

Adaptation of the Eastern Coyote According to one 2011 genetic study on a population of hybrid canid living in the eastern North America, the percentage of coyote DNA is between 60 and 84 percent, ...

Wolf: The grey wolf is significantly larger than the coyote, standing around 90 cm at the shoulder and measuring between 125-190 cm in length. Male wolves can weigh as much as 70 kg, while females ...

There is something magnificent about dogs that resemble their wild ancestors, and the same applies to coydogs, which are coyote/domestic dog hybrids. Although people can keep coydogs as pets, there ...

The animal weighed 84 pounds (38 kilograms), which is four times as heavy as a western coyote (Canis latrans) and double the average weight of an eastern coyote — a hybrid species with both ...

Eastern coyotes—a subspecies that has coyote, wolf and domestic dog DNA—run in a West Virginia forest. ForestWander.com via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For well over a month, the ...

5. Coyote Tracks Tend to Be More Oval, While Wolf Tracks Are More Rounded. Coyote footprints are roughly 2.5 inches (6 centimeters) long by 2 inches (5 centimeters) wide and more compact than those of ...

She said the new species is a genetic mix between the red wolf and the coyote. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Association, the red wolf was declared extinct in the wild in 1980.