After Tia Phillips’ female pit bull Nova had a litter of 11 puppies, she started to suspect her sweet pet had mated with a wolf discovered and killed near Lovell.

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When two different species procreate, hybridization is at play. It is a practice that is not uncommon in the wild but is far ...

It leaves the impression that they are a near 50-50 mix of wolf and coyote, and that just isn't the case, he said. "They are eastern coyotes," Gehrt said.

This eastern coyote is party coyote, part gray wolf, part domestic dog — and yet this hybrid is not a new species. Fiona M. Donnelly / Shutterstock ...

Adaptation of the Eastern Coyote According to one 2011 genetic study on a population of hybrid canid living in the eastern North America, the percentage of coyote DNA is between 60 and 84 percent, ...

The genetic makeup of coywolf varies from region to region, but they are roughly 60 percent coyote, 30 percent wolf, and 10 percent dog, according to a 2016 study.

The animal weighed 84 pounds (38 kilograms), which is four times as heavy as a western coyote (Canis latrans) and double the average weight of an eastern coyote — a hybrid species with both ...

The coywolf is a remarkable hybrid, a blend of coyote, wolf, and often dog genetics. These adaptable canids are larger than coyotes but smaller than wolves, inheriting traits from both species.

Eastern coyotes—a subspecies that has coyote, wolf and domestic dog DNA—run in a West Virginia forest. ForestWander.com via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For well over a month, the ...