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  2. Verdict in for wildlife mystery in Nevada where DNA tests ...

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    The sighting in northeast Nevada near Merritt Mountain about 90 miles (144 kilometers) north of Elko initially spurred a great deal of excitement as it would have marked only the second time in a century that wolves were spotted in the state. The Nevada Department of Wildlife went to great lengths to set the record straight with extensive DNA ...

  3. Verdict in for wildlife mystery in Nevada where DNA tests ...

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    The latest wildlife mystery in Nevada has been solved. DNA testing confirmed the results with 99.9% certainty, the Nevada Department of Wildlife announced this week. The sighting in northeast ...

  4. List of mammals of Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Gray wolf (Canis lupus) extirpated, vagrant Northwestern wolf (C. l .occidentalis) vagrant [6] †Cascade Mountains wolf (C. l. fuscus) extinct †Southern Rocky Mountain wolf (C. l. youngi) extinct; Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) Sierra Nevada red fox (V. v. necator)

  5. Wolf distribution - Wikipedia

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    Additional wolves have been tracked entering the state, as the Cascade Range extends south from Oregon into northern California. Wolves are dispersing into the Sierra Nevada and other portions of their historic habitat. [57] Wolves from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have dispersed into Colorado several times in the 21st century. In 2021 ...

  6. Fauna of Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The giant hairy scorpion is the largest scorpion in North America and is one of the 23 species of scorpion in Nevada. [1] The fauna of the U.S. state of Nevada is mostly species adapted to desert, temperature extremes and to lack of moisture. With an average annual rainfall of only about 7 inches (180 mm), Nevada is the driest – and has the ...

  7. Newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves roams ...

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    A newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming in California’s Sierra Nevada, at least 200 miles away from the nearest known pack, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

  8. Two new wolf packs found in California over 100 years after ...

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    Two new wolf packs have been spotted in Northern California, which shows a continued resurgence of the species a century after they disappeared from the Golden State.

  9. Paleontology in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The Quaternary of Nevada is typified by large pluvial lakes the largest being Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville. The deposits of this period show evidence of mammoths, a mastodon from Elko County, sabre-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant short-faced bears, as well as most of the animals still found in the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts today.