The gray wolf is a Canis with a range encompassing both the Old and New Worlds.
The gray wolf or grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) , also known as the timber wolf or western wolf , is a canine native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America . The New World is one of the names used for the Earth 's Western Hemisphere , specifically the Americas ( including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda ) . The Old World is used in the west to refer to Africa , Europe , and Asia ( Afro-Eurasia ) , regarded collectively as the part of the world known to Europeans before contact with the Americas .