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Experts warn hybrid predators are attacking people and livestock and are now a major threat

In the spring of 2023, a livestock farmer in central Italy lost several sheep in a single night to an animal that local wildlife officers initially logged as a wolf. Genetic testing told a different ...
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Experts warn hybrid predators are now attacking people and livestock — and populations are growing faster than agencies can track

In April 2026, a sheep rancher outside Reserve, New Mexico, found three ewes dead in a single night, their carcasses torn apart in a pattern that looked like wolf predation but did not quite match. A ...