State wildlife experts are seeking DNA analysis to pinpoint the mysterious creature’s species.
I had a few people send this to me but I’ll post this one since it has the link!
To me that looks like a coywolf. Of course with all kind of ‘mysterious creature’ clickbait, no on seems to take full body profiles or lots of images of the animal to be able to confirm just from images. But to me, it looks like a melanistic coywolf that was blowing it’s coat, hence the shaggy appearance. The ears scream coyote for sure. I think it is more uncommon for coyotes and wolves to hybridize in that area but it could have always traveled from further east and just ended up in MT. It’ll be interesting to see the DNA results but from the images I would have said it was a coy-mix more then a ‘wolf like creature’. The skull would be the best identifier without DNA analysis, so I hope images of it surface eventually.
I swear though the funniest accusation was ‘dire wolf’ which would have been nearly 3 times the size of that animal lol.