The new findings clarify relationships among members of the dog family, placing dire wolves (Canis dirus) in a New World lineage that split from the gray wolf's ancestors some 5.5 million years ...

Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0. As the cliché goes, dire wolves weren’t fat—just big-boned. Despite being about the same length as the gray wolf, C. dirus exceeded its modern cousin (Canis ...

Largest wolf ever. All of the above are the biggest living wolves, but what was the biggest wolf that ever lived? The dire wolf (Canis dirus) was said to be around the size of the largest gray ...

The dire wolf, an animal many people know from its fictional incarnation in “Game of Thrones” was a heavy-boned, powerful predator that roamed North America up to about 11,000 years ago, or ...

The first fossils were found in the 1850s in Indiana and Nebraska, and the species’ original latin name, Canis Dirus, meant terrible wolf. Bringing it back is a groundbreaking move and one whose ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, you’re a few millennia late for the real thing: While real dire wolves once roamed the Americas, Canis dirus went extinct about 10,000 years ago, with no descendant species.

Colossal Biosciences, using a new gene editing technology, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf: “After a 10,000-plus-year absence, our team is proud to return the dire wolf to its ...

Examples of dentaries of Canis dirus from the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps bearing abscesses, alveolar resorption, and tooth fracture in the p4-m1 region similar to those in the ...

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 ...