wolf

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By the judgment of many, the red wolf is now extinct but for its genes, which live on in large coyotes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

As for the red wolf, Mr. Moore writes that, in the 1930s in northeast Louisiana, a remnant tract of old-growth forest teemed with prowling panthers and massive alligators.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The American red wolf was left on the verge of extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

This cost has been deemed worth the value of regrowing the state’s wolf population and reaping the ecosystem benefits after they were wiped out by hunters and trappers about a century ago.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

They’d also destroyed a wolf den on the other side of the gully.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver