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• - Including the dire wolf, as found in the U.S. Midwest 16,000 years ago, from the Illinois State Museum.
  
• - Part of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission, dedicated to co-ordinating and conducting research and conservation activities worldwide to conserve endangered canid species. Includes accounts of the natural history of each of the 35 species of wild canid
  
• - Conservation action plans, papers, and Canid News, a journal with articles relevant to the biology and conservation of canid species.
  
• - Overview and phylogeny of the 35 species of this family.
  
• - The evolution of the genus Canis is a complex topic involving at least five continents. The genus arose in North America sometime in the Late Miocene.
  
• - Family overview and species accounts from the Animal Diversity Web.
  
• - Diagram of the skull of a canid.