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.

and double the average weight of an eastern coyote — a hybrid species with both coyote and wolf parentage that colonized areas of North America after the extirpation of wolves in the early 20th ...

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 ...