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Where did the dire wolf live?

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Where did the dire wolf live?

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The dire wolf (Canis dirus) is an extinct canid which was found on the steppes of North America up until the end of the last Ice Age. It was a little larger than the grey wolf (Canis lupus), with proportionally shorter legs and larger jaws and teeth. It is thought that it was adapted for scavenging as well as hunting the megafauna found on the continent at the time, allowing it co-exist with the grey wolf, which would have hunted smaller prey (ultimately allowing it to outlive the dire wolf, which could not survive the extinction of its prey – due to its shorter legs it could not adapt to catching faster-moving prey). There have been more dire wolf fossils found in the La Brea tar pits than any other species, suggesting both that they were common and that they lived in packs, like the grey wolf. It is likely that a female would have dug a den in which to give birth to her cubs, as grey wolves do, but as adults they would have spent all their time in the open, not retreating to caves or

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