Dire Wolf - The Prehistoric Hypercarnivore with a Powerful Bite - What Was Lost Ep.9
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3 жыл бұрынDire wolves were the largest species of wolf to ever exist. These menacing predators also had an incredibly powerful bite! Learn more about the dire wolf in this episode of What Was Lost.
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@herrerasaurstudios7028 3 жыл бұрын
Dire wolves have always been one of the coolest extinct mammals in my opinion
@atlurk 3 жыл бұрын
It's just a slightly bigger gray wolf
@resmimanoj5797 3 жыл бұрын
@@atlurk But they were monstrous and terrifying and their bite force is of a hippo
@Willowthedestroyer123 2 жыл бұрын
@@atlurk True, but they looked nothing like grey wolves coat color wise.
@samo6083 2 жыл бұрын
@@resmimanoj5797 Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric...
@batspidey7611 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Cenozoic predators.
@ashleysmith940 3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I was hoping it would be Dire Wolf :)
@prehistorichero2755 3 жыл бұрын
One of my top five favorite Cenozoic animals.
@redraptorwrites6778 3 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel a week ago and dang it's good. I love your format of short, informative videos on prehistoric life.
@AncientLife 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the channel! So glad to hear you're enjoying :)
@palacioscarlo745 3 жыл бұрын
The isotopic analysis determined that there was plenty of animals such as bison and horse for the dire wolf but also plenty of competition for predators such as the American Lion, Smilodon, and Short Faced Bear.
@lucomann6052 3 жыл бұрын
good video
@tristanburgos1 3 жыл бұрын
Keep it up! Your videos are great!
@Ostalgie658 3 жыл бұрын
What a great channel, I hope we reach a 1000!!
@erinb3241 3 жыл бұрын
It's close!
@bread8439 Жыл бұрын
2 years later, gained another thousand!
@durpydodo8389 3 жыл бұрын
can dire bear be next if that exists
@aaronbeckett4772 3 жыл бұрын
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@BigBoiRedFrog Жыл бұрын
The la Brea tar pits are so interesting!
@StoriesbyIrish 3 жыл бұрын
YES! THANK YOU! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@AncientLife 3 жыл бұрын
Haha I knew you'd be happy about this week's pick!
@ianjoshuademesa7072 3 жыл бұрын
love watching your videos! please do thylacine next 🙂
@lavenderflowersfall280 3 жыл бұрын
They're close modern relative the gray wolf? Angela Perri, a zooarchaeologist at Durham University: Ima bout to ruin this KZfaqrs whole career
@user-eg7ex1kw3w 2 жыл бұрын
The dire wolf in the hills in the dead of night
@sosa2mars 3 жыл бұрын
Though since the paper isn’t released yet it’s fine (though hopefully it gets released before the end of the year) but you should know we supposedly now know that Dire Wolves probably weren’t even apart of the genus Canis anymore, meaning the name Aenocyon dirus would possibly become the taxon name again. The study also supposedly suggests a south american origin for A. dirus which mean dire wolves would be another great example of convergent evolution between two canid genera. Source - m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7mHksequtTWnIE.html Also personal opinion here, I’d be wary about that asian dire wolf fossil as it easily could just be a large grey wolf specimen. That all aside great video, glad to see your channel is growing!
@Willowthedestroyer123 2 жыл бұрын
Yes the paper was released! I really hope the new information can become widespread so that people have more accurate depictions of dire wolves.
@indyreno2933 2 жыл бұрын
Actually Aenocyon actually had Asian origin, this is because the tribe Canini includes exclusively old world genera such as Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Lupulella, Vulpes, Alopex, Otocyon, and Nyctereutes, thus the extinct genus Aenocyon was specifically part of the subtribe Canina as the most basal genus known, whilst all species that live in South America are the only extant representatives of the tribe Cerdocyonini, which includes all new world genera, new world canines (tribe Cerdocyonini) used to live in North America, but now exclusively inhabit South America to avoid competition with old world canines that arrived in North America.
@stevesmentkowski7789 7 ай бұрын
There was plenty of other food for them and I don't think food was the problem for any of them. It's their guess not a fact!
@jorgelopes4123 6 ай бұрын
Dire Wolf Will be not te same animal that Saint Bernard Islând Wolf ? Tey lokes like same sise like Dire Wolves !!
@herohamza1196 2 жыл бұрын
actually dire wolves aren't wolves at all.
@indyreno2933 2 жыл бұрын
Dire wolves are still wolves, it's actually just that wolves are an informal and polyphyletic group and are not a natural grouping, this explains why there are living and extinct genera of dogs with species called "wolves", in fact the new genus it is included within called Aenocyon is neither closely related to jackals or to other wolves, but was instead a basal genus within the subtribe Canina that evolved before any extant genus belonging to this subtribe, in fact the subfamily Caninae (Modern Dogs) contains three extant tribes, Urocyonini (Primitive Canines (contains 1 genus: Urocyon)), Cerdocyonini (New World Canines (contains 2 subtribes: Chrysocyonina (contains 3 genera: Atelocynus, Speothos, and Chrysocyon) and Cerdocyonina (contains 2 genera: Lycalopex and Cerdocyon))), and Canini (Old World Canines (contains 2 subtribes: Vulpina (contains 4 genera: Vulpes, Alopex, Otocyon, and Nyctereutes) and Canina (contains 4 genera: Lupulella, Lycaon, Cuon, and Canis))).
@yoyo777 Жыл бұрын
@@indyreno2933 the video is still wrong 1:16
@yoyo777 Жыл бұрын
@@indyreno2933 not that they had a way to know.
@Dr.Ian-Plect 7 ай бұрын
@@yoyo777 Reno was wrong (as usual). Only Canis lupus are true wolves.
@Dr.Ian-Plect 7 ай бұрын
@@indyreno2933 Wrong as usual Reno, only Canis lupus are true wolves.
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