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Grateful Retreats Presents The Dire Wolves Play Dead Music & Wellness Retreat Apr 7, 2021 Advertisement Members of moe., The String Cheese Incident and The Big Wu will join forces as The Dire Wolves to pay tribute to the Grateful Dead. The supergroup will perform at Grateful Retreats, an exclusive VIP music and wellness retreat coming to the Jade Retreat Center in Nosara, Costa Rica May 11 – 17. The Dire Wolves features Al Schnier and Vinnie Amico of moe., The String Cheese Incident’s Jason Hann and Mark Joseph of The Big Wu. Only 30 tickets will be sold with gourmet catered meals, yoga...

From the very first episode, it was cuddly and cute to watch Jon Snow rescue a family of dire wolves, including his very own runt of the litter. An albino runt named Ghost, the loyal (if insanely large) canine would go on to grow up right alongside Game of Thrones’ most ill-treated Stark through the iconic HBO show’s eight seasons. But a new DNA sequencing has unraveled some of the mysteries of its real-world counterpart — and we’re pretty sure there’s not a ghost of a chance you’d want to adopt a real dire wolf as a pet…even if you could.

For the first time ancient DNA has been taken from dire wolves revealing a complex history of these ice age predators.

Copy to Clipboard (Art by Mauricio Anton) The iconic and terrifying dire wolf, made famous in the television series ‘Game of Thrones', prowled through North America until about 11,000 years ago or perhaps more, after which they went extinct. They were once believed to be closely related to living wolves. But research suggests that this is not true. 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 a new study, which puts to bed a mystery that biologists have pondered for more than 100 years. ...

Jan 14, 2021 08:10 AM EST Before they gained notoriety in the famous television series, Game of Thrones, dire wolves have since captured every fantasy fans and geeks' imagination. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons: Eden, Janine and Jim) Dire Wolf skeleton All over the fantasy genre, these creatures are shown as giant-sized wolves that are capable of putting fear into the hearts of the bravest warriors. Many thought that these beasts were only real in the hearts of fantasy lovers; however, they thought wrong. Dire wolves (Canis dirus) are giant prehistoric wolves that reach an average of 150 pounds (...