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IMAGE: Two gray wolves (lower left) confront a pack of dire wolves over a bison carcass in Southwestern North America 15,000 years ago. view more
Credit: Art by Mauricio Anton
The iconic, prehistoric dire wolf, which prowled through Los Angeles and elsewhere in the Americas over 11 millennia ago, was a distinct species from the slightly smaller gray wolf, an international team of scientists reports today in the journal
Nature.
The study, which puts to bed a mystery that biologists have pondered for more than 100 years, was led by researchers from UCLA, along with colleagues from Durham University in the U.K., Australia s Adelaide University and Germany s Ludwig Maximilian University.
Extinct dire wolves split off from other wolves nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of today s wolves, according to new research published in Nature.
The remains of more than 4,000 now extinct dire wolves have been excavated from La Brea Tar Pits in California and examined by experts from Durham University.
Extinct dire wolves split off from other wolves nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of today’s wolves, new research suggests.