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NY scientists show how coyotes became top dog
Quick ReadNY study: Coyotes bred with wolves, evolved in eastward expansion from mousers to deer hunters
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Museum scientists say studies of DNA and old skulls show that coyotes cross-bred with Canadian wolves as they expanded their range eastward, allowing them to evolve from grassland mousers to forest deer-hunters.
The North American coyote is a hunter of small prey in the Great Plains. But as it colonized the Northeast over the last half century, the species...
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