As hunting season gets under way, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is warning those with coyote tags to be aware of the differences between coyotes and wolves. Currently, the federal Endangered Species Act ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — In New York, lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require wildlife officials to collect DNA samples from any large wild canines killed by hunters. It’s an effort ...

A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes.

A hunter in central New York shot a wild gray wolf, the first verified and documented case of the species south of the St.

DURHAM, N.C. -- A panel of top scientists concluded Thursday that the endangered red wolf of the southeastern U.S. is a species unto itself, giving the beleaguered canine a scientific and political ...

BOISE, Idaho — Organizers of a disputed weekend predator derby in central Idaho's mountains say 21 coyotes but no wolves were shot by more than 230 hunters who participated. The derby near Salmon ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution provides interesting new evidence about the evolution of North American wolves, which has been a subject of debate among conservationists and taxonomists ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service says gray wolves are unlikely to return to the Northeast but wildlife advocates dispute that fact.

Coyotes and wolves have long been cast as the villains of the wild. For centuries, they’ve been trapped, poisoned, and shot — not because of what science says, but because of old fears and folklore.

The rural city in northern Minnesota – located just outside the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness – has become a regular hangout for several gray wolves that have ...