The coywolf sounds like something out of a science fiction, but it's just part coyote ( Canis latrans ), part gray wolf ( ...

coyote hunters and trappers may accidentally kill a wolf. “For far too long state agencies in the Northeast have undervalued the hybrid status of the eastern coyote or coywolf,” said Jonathan Way, ...

“Yes, it is an eastern coyote or coywolf.” He said genetic comparisons with wolves show that eastern coyotes have a significant amount of wolf DNA, which would make them a hybrid of both animals.

But others think it is a coywolf (a coyote wolf hybrid), or perhaps a wolfdog bred in captivity and later released into the wild. Wolf hunting is permitted in the state and residents are allowed ...

Yet, when we look at a coywolf's genome, we can tease out what percentage is coyote and wolf and domestic dog. They're different, and yet not that different. The percentage of each species in the ...