Red wolves once ranged throughout the entire Southeast, as far north as New York, northwest to Missouri, and down to mid-Texas. In the 1960s, the animals were living mostly in marshy areas and ...

In 1980, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) captured the last wild red wolves (just 14 animals) and declared the species extinct in the wild,” WCC reports. In 1987, the USFWS gave the ...

Few individual animals have ever been more important to their species than 2323M — a red wolf, dubbed Airplane Ears by advocates for his prominent extremities, who spent his brief but fruitful life on ...

Photo courtesy of Sara Burran The St. Louis Zoo has expanded its animal family by four! Earlier this year, four American red wolf pups were born at the destination's Sears Lehmann Jr. Wildlife ...

In 1987, eight years before gray wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park, the US Fish and Wildlife Service performed their first successful attempt at reintroducing a top carnivore into ...

“Red wolves are sacred animals to us,” said Runęhkwáʔčhęʔ Duane Brayboy ... “For red wolves to make another incredible comeback, they’ll need all the help they can get.” Photos of the red wolves and ...