The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 14:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New molecular evidence reveals a new species of grey wolf living in Africa. Formerly confused with golden jackals, and thought to be an Egyptian subspecies of jackal, the new African wolf shows that members of the grey wolf lineage reached Africa about 3 million years ago, before they spread throughout the northern hemisphere...

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