A new species is evolving right before our eyes -- an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes and dogs

A new species is evolving right before our eyes -- an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes and dogs: A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States. Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist. The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there. That also …