January
13
/ 2021
Have you ever heard of dire wolves? You’ll probably say “Yes” if you are a fan of the TV show Game of Thrones. This canine species appears in the iconic TV series, where it is known as a ‘direwolf’ and is the sigil of House Stark; but it also actually roamed North America until around 13,000 years ago. New research shows that the story of dire wolves should not be based on appearances alone. Real life dire wolves were large, wolf-like (as you might expect), and were one of the most common carnivores to call the Americas home in the Late Pleistocene period (approximately 126,000 to 12,000 years ago). The body shape of this extinct species is so similar to
