Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)
Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)
Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)
Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)

Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)

Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus (Leidy, 1858))
 
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Temporal range: during the late Pleistocene (North America)
Dimensions: length - 1,6 m, height - 85 сm, weight - 45-90 kg

 

Aenocyon dirus (Canis dirus) or «dire» wolf - one of the largest canine that ever lived on the Earth. «Dire» wolves were at their sizes like a large modern gray wolves (Canis lupus) and weighed, depending on gender and individual differences, 55 to 80 kg. Morphologically Aenocyon dirus were very similar to modern wolves, but these two species are not as closely related as it may seem at first sight. Homeland gray wolves - Eurasia, and the «dire» wolf as a type formed in North America. So genetically «dire» wolf closer to the coyote (natives of America), rather than the gray wolf. «dire» wolf has differed from his gray neighbor with his head, a few larger to the body. The molar teeth of this predator were more massive than those of modern wolves. In general, the skull of this species looks like a very large skull of an ordinary wolf. Being stronger and overweight animals, therefore, less hardy, they can hunt very large prey, while a frisky gray wolves attacked the swift-footed prey.
Perhaps the «dire» wolves were less social than gray. Among the subfamilies of wolf (Caninae) truly schooling animal is the gray wolf. In 2021, a DNA study found the dire wolf to be a highly divergent lineage when compared with the extant wolf-like canines, and this finding is consistent with the previously proposed taxonomic classification of the dire wolf as genus Aenocyon.
Species of Aenocyon dirus finally disappeared with the extinction of the mammoth megafauna about 10 thousand years ago.

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Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus (Leidy, 1858))
 
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Temporal range: during the late Pleistocene (North America)
Dimensions: length - 1,6 m, height - 85 сm, weight - 45-90 kg

 

Aenocyon dirus (Canis dirus) or «dire» wolf - one of the largest canine that ever lived on the Earth. «Dire» wolves were at their sizes like a large modern gray wolves (Canis lupus) and weighed, depending on gender and individual differences, 55 to 80 kg. Morphologically Aenocyon dirus were very similar to modern wolves, but these two species are not as closely related as it may seem at first sight. Homeland gray wolves - Eurasia, and the «dire» wolf as a type formed in North America. So genetically «dire» wolf closer to the coyote (natives of America), rather than the gray wolf. «dire» wolf has differed from his gray neighbor with his head, a few larger to the body. The molar teeth of this predator were more massive than those of modern wolves. In general, the skull of this species looks like a very large skull of an ordinary wolf. Being stronger and overweight animals, therefore, less hardy, they can hunt very large prey, while a frisky gray wolves attacked the swift-footed prey.
Perhaps the «dire» wolves were less social than gray. Among the subfamilies of wolf (Caninae) truly schooling animal is the gray wolf. In 2021, a DNA study found the dire wolf to be a highly divergent lineage when compared with the extant wolf-like canines, and this finding is consistent with the previously proposed taxonomic classification of the dire wolf as genus Aenocyon.
Species of Aenocyon dirus finally disappeared with the extinction of the mammoth megafauna about 10 thousand years ago.

Reviews (24):
Idelmar
21.06.2021

Very good, but they could add that they also lived in South America, as fossils of them have been found in Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Dylan Hooton
18.02.2021
This looks nice!

But some people still calls it Canis dirus despite that name being no longer valid.
Azarya M
29.07.2020

Я рад видеть эту картину. Надеюсь, слишком много людей увидят это
Azarya M
28.07.2020
это хорошо, я надеюсь, что многие люди видят эту замечательную картину.
Митрич
09.12.2018
Вот и смогла некоторая их часть отожраться на этом природном "мясокомбинате" до фактуры Dire wolf, а с исчезновением плейстоценового "мясокомбината" неблагополучно исчезла, да еще и двуногие пришельцы-конкуренты немало поспособствовали!Эти Dire wolf просто разделили судьбу своих евразийских коллег -пещерных гиен, которые не давали в Евразии развиться подобной волчьей (или шакальей) форме когда и там исчезла плейстоценовая мегафауна. Вот как-то так...