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  • Coywolfs, unlike other hybrid species, are not sterile. (ForestWander, Wikimedia Commons)
    Canines Conquer The East
    Katie Talbot
    Eastern wolves and coyotes have been interbreeding more frequently over the past several hundred years, and now their hybrids are widespread from the Great Lakes region to the east coast.
  • Detail from the title page of Species Plantarum, 1753, by Carl Linnaeus.
    Nomenclature
    MOYA ANDREWS
    Common names of plants vary greatly, but officially, each plant has two Latin names.