Eastern coyotes, also known as coywolves, have been spotted in cities across the northeastern United States. People may not realize that this isn't your typical coyote; in fact, it's a new species ...

and double the average weight of an eastern coyote — a hybrid species with both coyote and wolf parentage that colonized areas of North America after the extirpation of wolves in the early 20th ...

(It's called a coydog if it has only coyote and dog DNA.) According to one 2011 genetic study on a population of hybrid canid living in the eastern North America, the percentage of coyote DNA is ...

The coywolf sounds like something out of a science fiction, but it's just part coyote (Canis latrans), part gray wolf (Canis lupus) and part domestic dog (which is technically a subspecies of the wolf ...