dire wolf

noun

: a large extinct wolflike mammal (Canis dirus) known from Pleistocene deposits of North America

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Recent Examples on the Web Thousands of years ago, prey animals fell into the seeps, made a ruckus, and attracted predators such as the saber-tooth cat and the dire wolf. —

Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023 But an international team of scientists reported in the journal Nature that the first sequencing of the dire wolf genome showed an unexpectedly large genetic separation between the two species, big enough that the dire wolf is not just a separate species but a separate genus. —

Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021 Sabertooth cats also lived among the dire wolf, stag-moose, muskox, giant short-face bears, bison, and mammoth. —

Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023 The study Perri participated in opens up whole new avenues of investigation into the life and evolution of the dire wolf. —

Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for dire wolf

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