Canis dirus (Dire Wolf)

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Scott, E. and Springer, K. B. (2016). First records of Canis dirus and Smilodon fatalis from the late Pleistocene Tule Springs local fauna, upper Las Vegas Wash, Nevada. PeerJ 4: e2151.

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Doughty-Hall, P. and Coghill, K. (2016). Respiration of Canis dirus, The Dire Wolf. Unpublished?

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Coghill, Keely. (2016). Osmoregulation and Excretion of ​Canis di​rus, the Dire Wolf. Zoology 430. [unpublished?]

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Brown, Caitlin, Balisi, Mairin, Shaw, Christopher A. and Van Valkenburgh, Blaire. (2017). Skeletal trauma reflects hunting behaviour in extinct sabre-tooth cats and dire wolves. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 0131. [Abstract]

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Scott, Eric, Springer, Kathleen B. and Sagebiel, James C. (2017). The Tule Springs local fauna: Rancholabrean vertebrates from the Las Vegas Formation, Nevada. Quaternary International 443(A): 105-121. [Abstract]

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Neufeld, Branden T. (2018). The Dire Consequences of Specializing on Large Herbivores: A Comparison of Extinct Canis dirus and Extant Canis lupus. USURJ: University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 5(1): 1-9.

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Czaplewski, Nicholas J., Rogers, Kyler J. and Russell, Clayton. (2018). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Three-Forks Cave, Adair County, Oklahoma Ozark Hiughland. Journal of Cave & Karst Studies 80(2): 1-16. [Abstract]

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Flores, Deanna et al. (2020). The howl of Rancho La Brea: Comparative anatomy of modern and fossil canid hyoid bones. Journal of Morphology 281(6): 646-652. [Abstract]

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Lu, Dan et al. (In Press, 2020). A late Pleistocene fossil from Northeastern China is the first record of the dire wolf (Carnivora: Canis dirus) in Eurasia. Quaternary International. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.054 [Abstract]

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Perri, A.R., Mitchell, K.J., Mouton, A. et al. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

Abstract

Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae2,3, there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.

www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03082-x

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Dire wolf (Canis dirus) from the late Pleistocene of southern Canada (Medicine Hat, Alberta)

Ashley R. Reynolds, Talia M. Lowi-Merri, Alexandria L. Brannick, Kevin L. Seymour, C. S. Churcher, David C. Evans

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jqs.3516

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Subchondral defects resembling osteochondrosis dissecans in joint surfaces of the extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis and dire wolf Aenocyon dirus

journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287656