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.

Why it's awesome: If there were a beauty contest for wild canines, the maned wolf would surely be the winner, with its flowing red coat, long legs and large ears. Its name derives from the black ...

Slinky, a three-month-old brindle mix, was coincidentally taken in by the Kansas Humane Society, a Wichita-based pet adoption and rescue organization, on the same day maned wolf Amora was born at ...

BUENOS AIRES, May 17 (Reuters) - Argentine conservationists have returned a rare and unusual-looking animal, a maned wolf, to the wild around Buenos Aires, with its long black legs and red-fur ...