It has long been thought that dire wolves were close relatives of the gray wolves that still live in North America today, but a surprising new study has found that is not the case at all.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Dire wolf mystery uncovered with help from Tennessee fossils
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WCYB) — If you're a fan of the hit television show "Game of Thrones", you might be surprised to know that the show's ill-fated dire wolves, the Stark children's pets, were inspired by and named after a real animal that once lived in North America.
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I am fed-up with this "the pharmaceutical corporations get immunity" nonsense.
Dealing with archaeology and history, a researcher should not use "might have" and "may have." Those words mean, "It's all guesswork, but it's possible..." Or maybe not.
ReplyDeleteSame thing with climate science, might, may, could happen, they do not know but lets make it sound scary to keep the grant money flowing!!!! grayman
DeleteNow THAT is what scientists need to be cloning! Not stupid sheep. Imagine letting a few loose in Minnesota right about now.
ReplyDeleteReporters must not have been Grateful Dead fans, if they had to explain a dire wolf. Of course, the real ones were unlikely to sit down for a game.
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DeleteWhen I awoke, the dire wolf, 600 pounds of sin......they don’t write lyrics like that anymore!
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