The skeleton of a dire wolf (Canis dirus), photographed at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City. Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed ...
Two dire wolves and a saber-toothed cat fight over the carcass of a Columbian mammoth at the La Brea tar pits in this painting by R. Bruce Horsfall. Long extinct, the fearsome dire wolf that roamed ...
Comparison of Canis lupus and Canis dirus right dentaries with ROMVP 71618. (A) ROMVP R2030, Recent Canis lupus of unknown sex. (B) ROMVP 6394, Canis dirus from Talara, Peru. (C) ROMVP 71618 from ...
Examples of tibiae of Canis dirus from the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps bearing healed oblique fractures of the mid-shaft with foreshortening of the bone, similar to that in the ...
You've been reading or watching Game of Thrones. You've lovingly lingered over the descriptions of Grey Wind running into battle with Rob. You cried for Lady and cheered when Nymeria used Joffrey's ...
The fearsome 6ft-long dire wolves - as featured in Game of Thrones - first split from other wolf species about six million years ago, a new study discovered. The remains of more than 4,000 now extinct ...
The carnivores preserved in the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea tar seep deposits display a remarkably high incidence of teeth broken in life as compared with modern species. In a previous study ...
Wolves today live and hunt in packs, which helps them take down large prey. But when did this group behavior evolve? An international research team has reported specimens of an ancestral wolf, Canis ...
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