13-year-old Hinako Komori has brought a long-forgotten Japanese wolf specimen back into the spotlight. While touring Japan’s ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced ...

The Japanese wolf, last seen in 1905, was a cross between a giant variant and an unknown variant, scientists said in a theory that differs from two existing hypotheses on the mysterious creature.