Turns out that an animal a hunter shot last fall in central Missouri was a gray wolf. Conservation officials say a DNA test on the Howard County wolf confirms it came from Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan. Gray wolves have not lived in Missouri since the late 1800s but some have wandered in from northern states.

Crystal, a female gray wolf, roams the new wold enclosure during a sneak peak of the new American Trail at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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