Although it looks like someone mixed up the DNA for a deer and a fox, South America's native maned wolf is neither. In fact, the animal isn't even a part of the family that it is named after. Instead, ...

Asking weird questions is an essential part of being a science writer. The sort of stuff that stops dinner conversations cold or makes listeners respond “You really are a nerd, aren’t you?” It’s ...

The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid species in South America. It lives in the grasslands and scrub forests of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Thanks to its red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A maned wolf, largest canid of South America, walks in his enclosure at the zoo park of Lille, northern France, on February 11, ...

Its huge ears and lanky black legs have earned it the nick name "fox on stilts". But the maned wolf is neither fox nor wolf. It is a distinct species in the Canidae family. The wolves live in a vast ...

Catch a glimpse of a maned wolf on the prowl and you might feel compelled to do a double-take: It looks like a long-nosed, shaggy-haired fox on stilts. Also, its pee mimics the scent of a certain ...

"Slinky's playful nature is helping her grow into the wolf she is meant to be," said the Sedgwick County Zoo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of ...

The Maned wolf mostly inhabits Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast grassland threatened by rampant conversion to croplands and often forgotten by conservationists. The species may be adapting to its rapidly ...

GULF BREEZE, Fla. (WKRG) — Gulf Breeze Zoo now has two new resident animals — a sibling pair of maned wolves named Stella and Cieza. The nearly 3-year-old brother and sister pair arrived at the zoo in ...

These days, responsible zoos make an effort to try to create good living conditions for the animals under their care. That means allowing them to live in conditions as close to the ones they might ...