People may not realize that this isn't your typical coyote; in fact, it's a new species that has just emerged in the past 100 years. Produced by Grace Raver. Original reporting by Jennifer Welsh.

“To us, the animals looks ‘coyote-esque’ but has some dog-like ... the creature an “elusive ‘wolf-dog’ — a rare hybrid of all 3 canids!?!?” before labeling it as a joke.

The percentage of each species in the genetic admixture present in any one coywolf differs depending on where it's found, yet they all seem to be a hybrid of the wolf, coyote and domestic dogs.

The coywolf sounds like something out of a science fiction, but it's just part coyote (Canis latrans), part gray wolf (Canis lupus) and part domestic dog (which is technically a subspecies of the wolf ...