Tag: Falkland Islands wolf

• Wednesday, March 6th 2013 - 20:00 UTC

  Scientists solve mystery of the extinct Falkland Islands wolf

  

  It was an animal that puzzled Charles Darwin, who wondered how on Earth a large mammal that looked a bit like a wolf and a bit like a fox had arrived on barren islands nearly 500 kilometres from the mainland. Now, say biologists, the mystery of the now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf may have been resolved.