The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.

North Carolina is home to the only wild population of red wolves in the world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Madison, head of the Fish and Wildlife Service's red wolf program, sits behind a stuffed specimen of the critically endangered ...

Four litters of red wolf pups have been born in the wild in North Carolina this year, with 12 to 16 pups having survived ...

Red wolf by Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 2.0, Red wolf by Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 2.0, There are over 1,600 endangered and threatened species across the U.S. These species require support from charities ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

The Mexican wolf, seen here at the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Mo., Oct. 15, 2025, is the most critically endangered wolf subspecies on Earth. Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat Less than an ...

An endangered Mexican gray wolf that wandered outside the wolf recovery area was found dead Sunday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed, and the cause of death is under investigation. The ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released its latest estimate of the state's gray wolf population at the June 24, 2026 meeting of its Wolf Advisory Committee.

It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.