Courtesy New York Wolf Conservation Center. In 1987, the USFWS gave the red wolf a second chance at survival in the wild, releasing several captive bred wolves into North Carolina’s Alligator ...

A pair of 7-week-old red wolf pups explore their habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The Museum's six-year-old female gave birth to three male and ...

A litter of endangered red wolves was recently born in captivity. There are about 250 red wolves in the U.S. and these four were an unexpected surprise because the male was thought too old to breed.

Scientists are hopeful that the endangered red wolf population, absent from the wild for decades, could be revived now that a significant portion of its DNA has been found in wild coyote populations.

Rescuers Fly Red Wolf from N.C. to N.Y. to Help the Less than 20 Red Wolves Left in the Wild. Sage the red wolf is settling into the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in South Salem, ...

Rewilding isn’t just about putting animals back in the wild. It’s a careful science, blending genetics, ecology, and community support. For the red wolf, scientists first had to breed a ...

A red wolf ( Canis rufus ), in Florida The red wolf, a critically endangered species living in the south-eastern US, may be nothing more than a hybrid between coyotes and the grey wolf , a new ...

Red wolves are among the most endangered carnivores in the world. Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf ...

Conservationists have filed an Endangered Species Act lawsuit this week against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to protect the world's rarest wolf species, the red wolf.

The endangered red wolf. North Carolina is the only place where endangered red wolves live in the wild, but the species has been in perilous decline for a decade due to illegal gunshot injuries ...

There are about 250 endangered red wolves in the U.S. Recently, a litter of four was born in captivity — an unexpected, but welcome surprise since the male was thought too old to breed.