The Villisca dire wolf also co-existed with the sabretooth cat in southwest Iowa, Hill said. The two likely existed in different areas of the state and did not regularly compete for the same prey.

These predators roamed North America for thousands of years before going extinct roughly 13,000 years ago.. They were approximately 25% larger than the modern-day gray wolves. The dire wolf stood ...

Researchers from Michigan Tech University were unable to conduct their annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past ...

The company’s researchers extracted and studied ancient dire wolf DNA from a pair of fossils, and then made 20 edits to the genomes of modified modern gray wolf embryos to make the resulting ...

Gray wolf 2513 was part of the group of 20 wolves that were from taken from Canada to Colorado and released into the wild in January. The release was the second group release of wolves in the ...