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It was more than two years ago that Russ Lawrence shot and killed what he thought was an unusually large coyote one moonlit night. Or perhaps some sort of wolf-dog hybrid. FEATURED ADVERTISER 04 VUE FWD 4 w/Sports Plus Pkg $220 mo. / 47 mos. $8024 48th pymt. Tax, title, reg. extra. .27% APR / $0 Down - Learn more - State environmental officials agreed, but then, just last month, federal wildlife agents came to his door -- and demanded that he turn over the pelt from the 85-pound male canid he had hung on his porch. It turns out...

A biologist has confirmed the sighting of a real Michigan wolverine, about 200 years after the species was last seen in the state that uses the small but ferocious animal as its unofficial nickname. Coyote hunters spotted a wolverine near Ubly, about 90 miles north of Detroit. Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist Arnie Karr saw the forest predator Tuesday and snapped pictures of the animal as it ran out of the woods and across a field. The wolverine, a member of the weasel family that grows to about 25 pounds but is ferocious enough to fight off bears...