Bruce Horsfall. (CN) — The first genome sequence from dire wolf subfossils confirms the carnivores that roamed North America some 13,000 years ago were terrible. But they weren’t exactly wolves, at ...

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

Unfortunately, the shifting climate at the end of the ice age, combined with the competition with humans for food, led to the demise of the dire wolf and many other ancient predators about 10,000 ...