Canada now has its first dire wolf. For the first time, a Canadian fossil has been confirmed as coming from the Ice Age predator featured in the TV series 'Game of Thrones.
For the first time, a Canadian fossil has been confirmed as coming from the Ice Age predator featured in the TV series "Game of Thrones." The specimen, from near Medicine Hat in southern Alberta, was tentatively identified decades ago but a team from the Royal Ontario Museum used new technology to finally lock it down.
"We could tell pretty clearly right away it was a member of the dog family, about the size of a wolf," Reynolds said. Although dire wolves tend to be significantly bigger than grey wolves, this individual was within the size range of both species. So the researchers tried something else. There were giant ground sloths, wild horses, camels, mammoths and mastodons. Reynolds' previous research found sabre-tooth cats in the same deposit as the dire wolf.
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