Citation: Rueness EK, Asmyhr MG, Sillero-Zubiri C, Macdonald DW, Bekele A, et al. (2011) The Cryptic African Wolf: Canis aureus lupaster Is Not a Golden Jackal and Is Not Endemic to Egypt.

Until now, the Egyptian jackal - Canis aureus lupaster - had been considered a rare sub-species of the golden jackal. The new evidence shows it is not a jackal at all, but a type of grey wolf.

Conservationists in Egypt have discovered a new species of wolf, which shares DNA with Indian and Himalayan cousins. The "Egyptian jackal", as it's known, is not in fact a jackal at all, despite ...

The researchers have proved that the mysterious animal, known as the 'Egyptian jackal' and often confused with the golden jackal, is not a sub-species of jackal but a gray wolf. Scientists ...

"It seems as if the Egyptian jackal is urgently set for a name change," said study researcher Claudio Sillero of Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). "And its unique ...

A thousand years’ worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, “Anubis ...

In ancient Egypt, so many people worshiped Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death, that the catacombs next to his sacred temple once held nearly 8 million mummified puppies and grown dogs ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition ...

Its skull resembles that of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead after which it was named. The ancestors of modern whales developed from deer-like mammals that lived on land ...

Its skull resembles that of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead after which it was named. The ancestors of modern whales developed from deer-like mammals that lived on land ...