Gene tale They look alike, act alike and long have been considered to be the same species. But, in the case of the golden jackals found across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe, it ...

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 ...

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 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, ...