Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf cousins ... red wolves for a captive-breeding program — the species ...

which concludes that red wolves are a legitimate wolf species (Canis rufus) separate from grey wolves and coyotes. In June 2018, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed allowing North Carolina ...

Gray wolves, pushed to near extinction in the 1960s, have roamed North America alongside two other wolf species—the red wolf in the southeastern U.S. and the Eastern wolf in the area surrounding the ...