Coyote scrambles onto Alcatraz Island after perilous, never-before-seen swim

Experts have reacted to a viral video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz Island in what is a surprising first for the San ...

A coyote was caught on video swimming onto Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island isn't known for its wildlife, but earlier this month, guests captured video of a coyote swimming onto the ...

Coyote makes astonishing swim to Alcatraz — the start of a prison-island pack? We asked experts

A video taken by a tourist shows the first documented instance of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz, scientists say. It came ...

Watch: Coyote swims to Alcatraz Island in first-ever documented case

A coyote caught on camera swimming to San Francisco's Alcatraz Island is believed to be the first of its species to visit the ...
Hoodline

San Francisco Tourist Captures Coyote's Surprising Swim to Alcatraz Island

Coyote spotted swimming to Alcatraz Island, captured on video. Concerns raised for its wellbeing and survival chances.
NBC Connecticut

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
Christian Science Monitor

The Alcatraz prison is now a museum. But there’s no escaping its history.

JAILHOUSE ROCK: Alcatraz, aka The Rock, sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff By Melanie Stetson Freeman, Staff photographer; Troy Aidan Sambajon, Staff writer San ...
NBC Washington

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...