A new top predator roams the northeastern United States. The creature, which is equally at home in city parks, in graveyards and on the exurban fringes of civilization, has the lithe body and ...

There is a new hybrid species that has been spreading across North America at a startling pace and slipping unnoticed into cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Boston and even New York. It is called a ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- You may or may not have heard of them, but a coywolf has been spotted in southwest Indianapolis, according to Indiana Wildlife Management. The coywolf is a coyote-wolf hybrid that is ...

A mutant animal has a suburban New York City community on edge, with worries about threats to pets and residents being stalked as authorities try to track down the beasts. Police in Rockland County ...

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 ...

Wolves, coyotes, and dogs have formed a new type of creature referred to as the "coywolf" — that is, it is primarily a coyote-wolf hybrid — and researchers estimate there are now millions of them ...

DEAR JOAN: I was walking a couple of weeks ago in Moraga on the trail between Rheem Boulevard and Lucille Lane off St. Mary’s Road and I saw a wolf crossing the trail about 30 feet ahead of me. I have ...

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...

DEAR JOAN: I was walking a couple of weeks ago in Moraga on the trail between Rheem Boulevard and Lucille Lane off St. Mary’s Road and I saw a wolf crossing the trail about 30 feet ahead of me. I have ...