This Isn't A Wolf - Dire Wolf

Winter is coming... oh, also, Dire Wolves are apparently not wolves, go figure.

0:00 Intro
0:35 Classification As A Wolf
1:30 Reclassification & Closest Living Relative
2:08 Convergent Evolution
2:36 Size
3:40 Dire Wolf Subspecies
4:52 Pound for Pound Strongest Bite of Any Placental Mammal
5:25 Bite Force Compared To Smilodon
5:34 Advanced Dentition (Teeth)
6:04 Dire Wolf Packs
6:43 Coexisting Herbivores/Confirmed Prey
7:12 Pack Hunting Strategy
7:39 Hypercarnivore & Fruits
8:00 Evidence That Dire Wolves 'Dominated' Other Predators
8:40 Range
9:12 Trouble Succeeding In China
9:45 Competitors/Predators It Lived With
10:20 Human Interactions?
10:42 Extinction
11:24 Why Modern Wolves Survived But The Dire Wolf Didn't

Thumbnail artwork by Julio Lacerda

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