An extinct species of wolf, which served as inspiration for a mythical creature in the popular television show"Game of Thrones," had little in common with the gray wolves that roam North America today, new research has found.
Known as Canis dirus, meaning"fearsome dog," it had been thought that dire wolves were simply a beefier version of the gray wolf. However, a new study published in the journal Nature has revealed just how different they really were. The prehistoric carnivores roamed North America until they went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Dire wolf fossils are among the most common recovered at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
Name-checking GoT is all well and good. Grateful Dead came up with it decades earlier.
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