It is well known among Latin scholars, taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, natural historians, dog buffs, and other people familiar with the vagaries of taxonomy that the genus, or family, Canis ...

A golden jackal has been spotted in subarctic Russia for the first time—far from the normal home of the species, according to a study. The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a wolf-like species belonging ...

A species that was barely known in Europe now vastly outnumbers wolves there, and is rapidly spreading north and west. By James Gorman On a hill above Trieste, Italy, at the western edge of Slovenia, ...