dire wolf
noun
: a large extinct wolflike mammal (Canis dirus) known from Pleistocene deposits of North America
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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.
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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
That means their extinction left behind no hybridized offspring that could have passed on traces of dire wolf DNA to living canines.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
One of the most bizarre aspects of dire wolf evolution is their solitary presence in the Americas.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
The ambush predators were previously presumed to be in competition with another iconic Ice Age predator, the dire wolf.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
Tell him about how the dire wolf thinks that the horse is his mother.
—Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
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
That means their extinction left behind no hybridized offspring that could have passed on traces of dire wolf DNA to living canines.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
One of the most bizarre aspects of dire wolf evolution is their solitary presence in the Americas.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
The ambush predators were previously presumed to be in competition with another iconic Ice Age predator, the dire wolf.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
Tell him about how the dire wolf thinks that the horse is his mother.
—Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
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