North Carolina's red wolves have teetered on the edge of total extinction for decades, and 2026 brought a breeding season ...

After hundreds of submissions were made, the names of five young red wolf pups born at the Museum of Life in Science in ...

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.

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

This is the first time that the museum will give its red wolves names. In the past, the museum referred to the red wolves only by their official record numbers rather than by names, according to a ...

With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...

One critically endangered species that calls North Carolina home now has five more members. Three male and two female red wolf pups were born this month at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.