{"id":418599,"date":"2026-05-08T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:31:08","slug":"half-dog-half-wolf-why-this-rare-animal-puzzles-scientists-and-nature-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418599\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-dog, half-wolf: why this rare animal puzzles scientists and nature lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tHalf-dog, half-wolf: why this rare animal puzzles scientists and nature lovers &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/half-dog-half-wolf-why-this-rare-animal-puzzles-scientists-and-nature-lovers.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    What Greek researchers discovered by analyzing 50 wolf DNA samples has changed what was previously thought possible. \u00a9 Andyworks, iStock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half-dog, half-wolf: why this rare animal puzzles scientists and nature lovers &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 8, 2026 3 min&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-418599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}