Dire wolf - Wikipedia
The age of most dire wolf localities is determined solely by biostratigraphy, but biostratigraphy is an unreliable indicator within asphalt deposits.
Dire wolves are actually ice age mega-foxes - Popular Science
2021年1月21日 · The new study found that dire wolves were so evolutionarily different from a gray wolf and other canids that survived the transition out of the ice age that they couldn’t interbreed to make...
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
2021年1月13日 · The La Brea asphalt seeps famously document how prey animals mired in tar lured many of these ice age predators to a sticky death. The dire wolves’ tar-preserved remains reveal an imposing...
Dire wolves went extinct 13,000 years ago but thanks to new …
2021年1月13日 · But it was a real animal that roamed the Americas for at least 250,000 years, until it became extinct towards the end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.
The Dire Wolf: An Ice Age Angeleno | Natural History Museum
What’s the backstory of dire wolves, the most-found mammal at La Brea Tar Pits? Here are five juicy morsels about this extinct species that once howled through the Ice Age.
Dire Wolf Facts, Pictures & Information. A Fearsome Prehistoric …
2018年12月3日 · Made famous by the ‘Game of Thrones’ books and TV show, the dire wolf was in fact a real species. This large, intelligent predator was closely related to the grey wolf. It lived in North and South America during the Ice Age.
The legendary dire wolf may not have been a wolf at all
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 …
Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought
2021年1月13日 · They roamed throughout large swaths of the Americas and preyed on now extinct megafauna, such as Ice Age horses and ground sloths. But much about them remains unknown. Where did they come from?...
Dire Wolves Weren’t Actually Wolves, DNA Analysis Reveals
2021年1月15日 · To reveal the dire wolf’s true evolutionary identity, researchers extracted DNA from five fossils between 13,000 and 50,000 years old and sequenced their genomes.
The dire wolf was a distinct species, different from the gray wolf ...
2021年1月13日 · The Pleistocene, commonly called the Ice Age, ended roughly 11,700 years ago. More than 4,000 dire wolves have been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits, but scientists have known little about their evolution or the reasons for their ultimate disappearance.