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Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago


A hunter who killed a gray wolf during a legal coyote hunt in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in January said he mistook the animal for a large coyote.

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