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The dire wolf ( Aenocyon dirus [10] / iːˈnɒsaɪ.ɒn ˈdaɪrəs /) is an extinct canine. The dire wolf lived in the Americas (with a possible single record also known from East Asia) during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
20 de may. de 2024 · Dire wolf was a large and widespread species that lived in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch. It differed from modern wolves in skull, brain, and limb size, and evolved independently of them.
13 de ene. de 2021 · A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals that they were evolutionarily distant cousins of gray wolves, living in the Americas for hundreds of millennia. Learn how researchers analyzed dire wolf fossils from La Brea Tar Pits and other sites, and what their findings mean for the dog family tree.
13 de ene. de 2021 · Learn how ancient DNA analysis reveals the extinction of the dire wolf, a huge predator that roamed North America, and how Brexit affects UK-EU science collaboration. Listen to interviews with researchers and experts on these topics and more on the Nature Podcast.
13 de ene. de 2021 · New genetic analysis of ancient dire wolf remains challenges the common perception of it as a giant grey wolf or a close cousin of the dog. The dire wolf belonged to an unknown 6 million year-old lineage that was isolated and specialised in hunting large herbivores.
Share: One of North America's most famous ancient predators—and a favorite of Game of Thrones fans—emerged as mysteriously as it disappeared. Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats at the end of the last ice age, were long thought to be close cousins of gray wolves.
3 de dic. de 2018 · Learn about the dire wolf, a large, extinct predator that lived in North and South America during the Ice Age. Find out how it looked, what it ate, where it lived and why it went extinct.
