The Eurasian golden jackal lineage, however, split about 600,000 years prior to that." Now, Koepfli is proposing renaming the new wolf species Canis anthus, while the Eurasian golden jackal would ...

“It’s golden jackal-sized, and they have those in the Middle East, so we thought it must be a golden jackal. That’s why it fooled us for 150 years,” Wayne said.

The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family.

Jackals are small, wolf-like wild dogs. The best-known species include the golden jackal, the striped jackal, and the black-backed jackal. Unlike the coyote, they are native to the Afro-Asian region.

On April 3, the OFB announced that another golden jackal appeared on an image taken by a camera trap in the Hérault department, in southern France. Since 2017, Canis aureus has been sporadically ...