TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced ...

The Japanese wolf, last seen in 1905, was a cross between a giant variant and an unknown variant, scientists said in a theory that differs from two existing hypotheses on the mysterious creature.

I n a discovery that may reshape our understanding of Japan’s extinct wildlife, 13-year-old Hinako Komori has brought a ...

A model of Japanese wolf introgression.Dotted and solid lines indicate introgression events. Purple represents the Japanese wolf genome. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...