It was a coyote in wolf’s clothing. The large ... eastern United States are the descendants of those crosses, and have mixed back and forth with each other as they spread down the east coast ...
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.
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 ...