Is it a Hybrid, or Just a Weirdly Shaped Coyote? The project’s team has speculated that this animal might be a “woyote dog“—a playful term describing a mix of wolf, coyote, and dog.

Since all our eastern coyotes are a mix of western coyote, Algonquian wolf and domestic dog, they can be more than just the standard color. They have moved into our area to stay and we need to ...

But an analysis of their genomes has revealed a surprise: they are all actually one type of wolf, with varying amounts of coyote DNA, a study reported this week (July 27) in Science Advances. “Wolf ...