ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. — In April, the latest glimmer of hope appeared here in the only spot on Earth where endangered red wolves remain in the wild. Five pups were born ...

Red wolves are in serious trouble. There are only about 20 in existence, and all descended from 12 lineages or founders. Even if the population were rebuilt through captive breeding programs and ...

The agency wrote in an update this week: “Pup survival is always a concern after the mortality of one of the breeding pair, particularly red wolves with their first litter, such as was the case ...

Initial studies into the canids, or members of the animal family that includes wolves, coyotes, and dogs, claimed they contain both coyote and Red Wolf DNA. But, experts have stressed further ...

In recent years, vehicle strikes have become the leading cause of mortality among red wolves, or Canis rufus. Many of those strikes have happened along U.S. Highway 64, where the wildlife ...

From 1987 to 2000, 15 red wolves died from gunshot wounds, an average of 1.2 per year. But from 2000 to 2013, the total spiked to 73, an average of five per year—a 300 percent increase.

The aim is to bring more genetic diversity into the small population of captive red wolves, which scientists are using to breed and help save the species. This technology may have broader ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company which bills itself as the world’s first de-extinction company, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct ...

Colossal also reported today that it had cloned four red wolves using blood drawn from wild wolves of the southeastern US’s critically endangered red wolf population. The aim is to bring more ...