The report, commissioned by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the behest of Congress, found that the red wolf (Canis rufus) is a taxonomically distinct species. This finding is a key ...

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that ...

In a tiny pocket of North Carolina can be found the red wolf (Canis rufus), and it’s one of the most endangered wolf species in the world. Red wolves have, as you might’ve guessed, a reddish ...

During a recent visit to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, Harlan watched as breeding male Oka roamed around his ...

The red wolf (Canis rufus) once ranged throughout the eastern and southcentral United States. Now, however, it is the most endangered canid in the world, and one of the rarest mammals, due to ...

and the red wolf (Canis rufus). Others, however, throw a third or a fourth into the mix; the Eastern wolf (Canis lycaon) from North America and the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis). Depending on ...

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 ...