While the dire wolf lives on in popular fiction and lore, some of today’s wolves are close seconds in terms of their enormous ...

The research additionally presents evidence of a relationship between dire wolves and other wolf-like canids, although it is unclear which animal derived from which and when. Although dire wolves were ...

led to the demise of the dire wolf and many other ancient predators about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But other, more plucky animals managed to hold on a bit longer. The great auk (Pinguinus ...