Along with the Saber-Toothed Cat, Dire Wolves are another one of my favorite creatures of the Ice Age. It just took me a while to accept the new fact that it wasn’t a wolf, same way it took me a while to accept the fact that the sabertooth wasn’t a tiger. My two favorite animals aren’t what I thought they were.
Dire wolves are one of my favorite prehistoric animals even though they're not really wolves thanks anneka for information about these magnificent looking animals
@@tell-me-a-story-Băăăi, "telectualule". Sa mori tu? Lupii rosii, lupii de Alaska, lupii siberieni, lupii "pescari" din Newfoundland, vulpile sau cainii nu sunt din aceeasi familie? Nu mai bea!
I’ve seen Dire Wolf skeletons in the La Brea Tar Pits museum in LA, they have quite a collection. Excellent interesting museum I highly recommend going there.
I am put in mind of Hugh Glass, an American trapper mauled by a grizzly and left for dead in 1823. He managed to travel several hundred miles to a trading fort. Along the way he came across a buffalo (American bison) brought down by wolves. With a tree branch he used as a crutch he drove those wolfs away, so he laid by the buff eating his fill for several days When I saw the first fossil of a fire wolf I wasn’t much impressed, but… I had a friend with an Alaskan grey as a pet. The first time I saw him I was sitting in her house and she brought him in. He was well fed and probably bigger than wild. I did get a shot of fear, it was hard just to sit while the guy rushed over to sniff me. I bet meeting a dire wolf in the woods would get my attention
This is another example of convergent evolution, just like the Thylacine and Wolf. Thank you for an interesting, informative and visually beautiful video.
Largest wolfs measured here in Finland were 65-70kg and over 80cm from the withers. Not as large as from Alaska, but still huge. I'm trying to ignore the truth and keep on dreaming on dire ''wolfs'' 🤣 Keep up the good work 😍
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric...
Hello Anneka... this is a very informative video. It's amazing to learn how DNA analysis revealed the dire wolf was not related to regular wolves, coyotes, and dogs. This kind of made me think of Megaloceros, otherwise known as the Irish elk. Despite its name, it wasn't related to the moose (called "elk" in Europe) or the wapiti (nicknamed elk in U.S). Instead, it was revealed to be more closely related to the fallow deer. But unlike the dire wolf, the Irish elk was not a highly divergent lineage.
@@MrKingkz Dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage based on DNA analysis, compared to wolves and other modern wild canids including maned wolves. Maned wolves, on the other hand, are closely related to bush dogs.
@@animaladventurerI know that mained wolf's and bush dogs are closely related but I wasn't sure if they were closely related to dire wolf's thanks for clearing it up for me
I had a pack of five wolves I worked with closely at a safari park. The Alfa became a close friend and the rest of the pack respected me and often protected me from the brown bears also under my charge in the same enclosure. Today I have Wolfhounds and Danes. I have had both bigger than a Dire and at one time I had a female Wolfhound who weighed 204 pounds, even heavier than my big Dane. Still, glad none of them will ever run into a Dire. They can cope with our local Coyotes who keep their distance.
All animal species tend to get larger as you go north. This is for conservation of heat (energy) in cold climates. It is evident in most mammals that occupy varied climates. I'm familiar with eastern white-tailed deer. The deer in Canada are about twice as big as those in Florida--though they are the same species. This is largely why Yukon wolves are large.
The Dire Wolf was a specialty predator designed for the Age of the Great Mammals, the late Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and early Holocene epochs. Still not fully understood, the time of the giant and large mammals ended in a great extinction event for which early Man can only be held partially responsible. Some giant mammals either went extinct before the appearance of prehistoric man or were already on the verge of extinction as early Man appeared on the scene. Specialized for hunting larger, slower mammals, the dire wolves followed their large herbivore mammal prey into extinction. Dire Wolves went extinct just as Paleolithic Man was entering the North American continent. His numbers couldn't have been large enough to adversely affect what could have been hundreds of thousands of Dire Wolves. Certainly both would have come into conflict over competition for game mammals. But there is no existing mythology anywhere from any Native American tribe that recounts any ancient great battles with the giant wolves. The Dire Wolves were already dying out from loss of prey species. The surviving prey mammals were too fast, too agile, and too evasive for the large dire wolves. The nimbler, smaller grey wolves were more successful and survived, leaving their larger canine brethren consigned to the pages and legends of history, yet still lingering on in the subconscious primal fears of Mankind.
Whenever there is an extinction event where or when humans exist, such as 10-12,000 years ago, humans are the reason. They disappeared too coincidentally. Great video! Thank you!
Aenocyon is an extinct genus of dog that originated exclusively from Asia, it represents a basal offshoot within the subtribe Canina rather than being closely related to any extant genus within it, the Aenocyon genus contains seven recognized species: the †Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the †Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the †Miller's Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the †Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), †Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the †Ameghino's Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the †Kraglievich's Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), they were also the only genus of old world canine to ever enter South America, the zhoukoudian wolf is considered the most basal species within the Aenocyon genus and the only known Old World member of the genus.
🐺 I only have one complaint. Me lady, whomever created the thumbnail, insist on them never putting up some photo-shopped version of you! YOU do NOT need such a thing. You will still be a gorgeous woman 15 years from now. Never mind your beautiful spirit and soul.
The Dire wolf may have more in common with modern k-9's and not wolves according to some geneticist researching the gene sequences of the Dire Wolf, Modern Wolves and Domestic Dogs which means if the Dire Wolves have a genetic link to domestic Dogs there may have a missing link between them or there were domesticated Dogs when Dire wolves were around this could get very interesting.
I have just watched another clip about Dire Wolves. That video claims that Dire Wolves grew up to 1.5 metres tall and 150 pounds vastly different from your description. So, which is correct?
The smaller wolves and coyotes were omnivores instead of hyper carnivores. If prey is in short supply, they can subsist on a low protein heavily starch diet. Modern dogs have inherited the gene for it.
Your Ocean is an amazing wolf dog! And your husky should be a movie star! This was a memorable and informative documentary on dire wolves. Very useful family tree. La Brea tar pits are a treasure of well preserved fossils. They gave me my love of paleontology.
175 lbs is not the largest wolf ever recorded. It is only the largest wolf taken by the Alaskan Fish and Wildlife Services. The largest wolves are found in Alaska and the Yukon Territories of Northern Canada, which are separated by a line on a Map. But extremely large wolves can be found much further south. A wolf taken in Alberta has been estimated by experts to have weighed over 230 lbs. It certainly looked to be all of that in a photo, but there was no official weight taken. The whole problem with this controversial topic is that it leads to shooting the largest and most healthy wild wolves in the prime of their lives. I know that many people would prefer we not do that. In any case, it is doubtful that 175 lbs is the maximum size for Grey Wolves in the Northern Alaska and Canadian territories.
hello my huskies eyes keep changing colour from deep brown to wolf yellow everyday she is pure white in fer colour pink nose but her eyes just keep on changing colour please can you tell me why????????
So beautiful but I'd fear my olde English mastiff he killed 3 coyotes at once that went after one of my children but he is 33 inches at the shoulder and is 274 lbs at last wiegh in
Nooo!, There is only the so-called "werewolf" aka Hellhounds which are vessels for the Jinn/Demons/Earthbound spirits as in the city of the dead of the so-called "desert masters" known in modern times as the "Petra" (Cave city) as depicted in the film "Indiana Jones: And The last Crusade
Doubtful that they were less cunning it’s probably down to pack size breeding circumstances litter size and available prey. Probably just out paced due to size differences and perhaps a lack of adaptability to what resources would have been available to them.
@jim02122 Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric...
@@samo6083 we are speaking to supporting evidence that the dire wolves faded from existence due to competition. Similar to dingos and thylacine. Are you suggesting humans could have shot all the dire wolves?
I believe there was a wolf around 200lbs easy with a bigger skull and slighter wider teeth(not a dire wolf 🐺 however it was before this creature) around 300,000 maybe 🤔. We dint have evidence of "Mammoth like" wolves with thicker coats and much longer tails. Even at the time of roman and anicent Sumerian empires giant wolves existed
I love dogo argentino. I once helped to rescue one in a puppy mill. When I noticed it had a thick red toe, the owner offered me a discount. I was not capable of adopting it, but called in animal welfare. The puppy was really barely moving. She was barely alive and she was rushed to the vet. She and her sister survived. The lady of the shelter adopted her herself since she kind of comforted her cane corso that was mourning the loss of his mother, who she saved him with from another puppy mill. The dogo argentino girl became inseparable from the young cane corso male. I still hate the guy who was selling a dying puppy. It was almost 30 years ago, but the creep is still in businesses.
Ive seen a very large wolf behind my home. I recall when they opened wolf hunting season here there was an large specimen of 175--180 lb wolf taken in my county. Otheres ive seen were not near that size.
My beautiful 15 year old German shepherd Shepherd mix Fur baby girl is sadly reacting her end of life time she is still playful the signs are showing & I am just keeping her as happy & comfortable & Spoiled as possible but my heart is breaking. ❤️😥😢🐕🦺💔
No evidence to suggest it, but I wonder if they explain molossers. Some ancient ones were said to be enormous. Perhaps there’s an evolutionary link, domesticating these dire wolves. Having owned a few mastiffs I think of them as a separate species than other domestic dogs. My current neo is like a dinosaur. Not like other dogs at all in mass and strength. So have to wonder where these dogs really came from in Ancient Rome and Greece. Dogs that would pull down elephants. And yes i did enjoy this episode very much, thankyou again
basically there a 6 million years old unchanged species and it seams human history going back before Grey wolves but after larger predators and prey. it looks more like humans didn't get much a chance till the peek of the last ice age then today there's nothing left for humans to really struggle with. it's sad the Grey wolf continues because it's bigger brain but that seams to be the trend of evolution "smarter not harder" being the apex that humans are!
No. There are two sub species. One is shorter and one larger but the largest dire wolf is no taller than the tallest north western grey wolf. They are absolutely thicker and heavier
@Animal-Watch Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall....
Your description is incorrect, =cyon is latin meaning "dog" not "wolf", so the dire wolf's current scientific name actually now means "direly dreadful dog".
Dire wolves hunted large ice age herbivores such as Ancient bison, horses, ground sloths, camels, even mammoths and mastodons were potentially on the menu.
My Great Dane/American Bulldog mix Jester is 140lbs and stands 33 inches at his shoulder so pretty close to the size of a dire wolf. Thankfully he’s a lover not a fighter
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall...
So how powerful was the dire wolf’s bite force. 125 % more than the contemporary wolf’s which is ??? How could you give a comparison without giving the actual bite force. Without context like the actual number of foot pounds of force any comparison is meaningless. Kind of an unforgivable lapse of judgement since you brought up the topic in the first place.
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs. There are many different sub species of grey wolves. The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall...
Nothing to do with modern wolves but still the same type of creature :) So why do we need so many classification and sub-classifications ? In the end they are beautiful killing machines and the only thing we should ever load our brain with about them and all other such beasts from all species is how to avoid the, how to defend from them and never become prey. We need not find (new) names and specifications as to compare them afterwards :)
Mammoths went extinct when the pyramids were built, and the Moose is the largest Deer that ever lived, so the theory that there was not enough large prey doesn’t really hold up well.
We have a small pack of some Mexican wolfs or red wolves on my land in NM. I have called and a group of college kids came wanting to put collar’s on them, but they are next to impossible to find, they have to come out on their own. Shoot I only seen them probably less then 20 times. They don’t mess with our live stock or dogs, the students asked I do t post any pics or location which I have never did. Believe it or not people even here in America would poach or even mistake them for yots. They are a majestic breed, they look like red coyotes, but the student said they are Mexican. 😂😂
Along with the Saber-Toothed Cat, Dire Wolves are another one of my favorite creatures of the Ice Age. It just took me a while to accept the new fact that it wasn’t a wolf, same way it took me a while to accept the fact that the sabertooth wasn’t a tiger. My two favorite animals aren’t what I thought they were.
Your blue wolf is growing up so fast, how beautiful.
Thankyou x
Dire wolves are one of my favorite prehistoric animals even though they're not really wolves thanks anneka for information about these magnificent looking animals
It was a giant jackal, and jackals are in the same group of canids as gray wolves.
So I think it still counts as a wolf.
Fr, I’m studying the dire wolf
Nu exista "lupi groaznici". Numai oameni idioti.
@@tell-me-a-story-Băăăi, "telectualule". Sa mori tu? Lupii rosii, lupii de Alaska, lupii siberieni, lupii "pescari" din Newfoundland, vulpile sau cainii nu sunt din aceeasi familie? Nu mai bea!
Don't murder me!
Apparently they were not wolves at all, but ice age mega foxes according to a more recent genetic study.
I’ve been drawn to wolves since I was a kid…they are magnificent!
I’ve seen Dire Wolf skeletons in the La Brea Tar Pits museum in LA, they have quite a collection. Excellent interesting museum I highly recommend going there.
I am put in mind of Hugh Glass, an American trapper mauled by a grizzly and left for dead in 1823. He managed to travel several hundred miles to a trading fort.
Along the way he came across a buffalo (American bison) brought down by wolves. With a tree branch he used as a crutch he drove those wolfs away, so he laid by the buff eating his fill for several days
When I saw the first fossil of a fire wolf I wasn’t much impressed, but… I had a friend with an Alaskan grey as a pet. The first time I saw him I was sitting in her house and she brought him in. He was well fed and probably bigger than wild.
I did get a shot of fear, it was hard just to sit while the guy rushed over to sniff me. I bet meeting a dire wolf in the woods would get my attention
Fantastic content, Anneka. Well researched and eloquently presented. TY.
I use to live by a wolf sanctuary growing up with wolfs and feeding them was a great time miss those days.
This is another example of convergent evolution, just like the Thylacine and Wolf.
Thank you for an interesting, informative and visually beautiful video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why can wolves eat right after a hunt, but dogs can't eat after a walk?
@@thedetailcompany3091epigenetics that's why..
Largest wolfs measured here in Finland were 65-70kg and over 80cm from the withers. Not as large as from Alaska, but still huge. I'm trying to ignore the truth and keep on dreaming on dire ''wolfs'' 🤣 Keep up the good work 😍
I dream about having a fantasy Game of Thrones Wolf too!!! 🫶
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs.
There are many different sub species of grey wolves.
The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric...
Hello Anneka... this is a very informative video. It's amazing to learn how DNA analysis revealed the dire wolf was not related to regular wolves, coyotes, and dogs. This kind of made me think of Megaloceros, otherwise known as the Irish elk. Despite its name, it wasn't related to the moose (called "elk" in Europe) or the wapiti (nicknamed elk in U.S). Instead, it was revealed to be more closely related to the fallow deer. But unlike the dire wolf, the Irish elk was not a highly divergent lineage.
I think am not 100% that they are more related to the mained wolf from South America then today's wolf's
@@MrKingkz Dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage based on DNA analysis, compared to wolves and other modern wild canids including maned wolves. Maned wolves, on the other hand, are closely related to bush dogs.
@@animaladventurerI know that mained wolf's and bush dogs are closely related but I wasn't sure if they were closely related to dire wolf's thanks for clearing it up for me
@@MrKingkz no problem
The Megafauna of North America is great to see in a museum. Coming face to face alive in the wild would be something else😉😉
Thanks for sharing another amazing video Anneka.Always nice to see you😀🙌🏻🐾🐾💙🐺I really enjoyed the video
I had a pack of five wolves I worked with closely at a safari park. The Alfa became a close friend and the rest of the pack respected me and often protected me from the brown bears also under my charge in the same enclosure.
Today I have Wolfhounds and Danes. I have had both bigger than a Dire and at one time I had a female Wolfhound who weighed 204 pounds, even heavier than my big Dane.
Still, glad none of them will ever run into a Dire. They can cope with our local Coyotes who keep their distance.
Gorgeous Blue Wolf, Ocean.. Gorgeous!!!! Very interesting facts!! Great research!!! Thank you!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
Anneka thank you very much for sharing this very interesting video about the story of these wolves! 👏👏👏👏🥰💙🐺
Do you have plans on making a video for the Dogue de Bordeaux? Ive been waiting :)
All animal species tend to get larger as you go north. This is for conservation of heat (energy) in cold climates. It is evident in most mammals that occupy varied climates. I'm familiar with eastern white-tailed deer. The deer in Canada are about twice as big as those in Florida--though they are the same species. This is largely why Yukon wolves are large.
The Dire Wolf was a specialty predator designed for the Age of the Great Mammals, the late Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and early Holocene epochs. Still not fully understood, the time of the giant and large mammals ended in a great extinction event for which early Man can only be held partially responsible. Some giant mammals either went extinct before the appearance of prehistoric man or were already on the verge of extinction as early Man appeared on the scene.
Specialized for hunting larger, slower mammals, the dire wolves followed their large herbivore mammal prey into extinction. Dire Wolves went extinct just as Paleolithic Man was entering the North American continent. His numbers couldn't have been large enough to adversely affect what could have been hundreds of thousands of Dire Wolves. Certainly both would have come into conflict over competition for game mammals. But there is no existing mythology anywhere from any Native American tribe that recounts any ancient great battles with the giant wolves. The Dire Wolves were already dying out from loss of prey species. The surviving prey mammals were too fast, too agile, and too evasive for the large dire wolves. The nimbler, smaller grey wolves were more successful and survived, leaving their larger canine brethren consigned to the pages and legends of history, yet still lingering on in the subconscious primal fears of Mankind.
Whenever there is an extinction event where or when humans exist, such as 10-12,000 years ago, humans are the reason. They disappeared too coincidentally. Great video! Thank you!
So informative! I love your videos anneka!! You are such an amazing person 😍😍😍😍
Thankyou 🙏
It really wasn’t. She knows very little and just looks and sounds good doing it.
Aenocyon is an extinct genus of dog that originated exclusively from Asia, it represents a basal offshoot within the subtribe Canina rather than being closely related to any extant genus within it, the Aenocyon genus contains seven recognized species: the †Zhoukoudian Wolf (Aenocyon variabilis), the †Armbruster's Wolf (Aenocyon armbrusteri), the †Miller's Wolf (Aenocyon ferox), the †Edward's Wolf (Aenocyon edwardii), †Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus), the †Ameghino's Wolf (Aenocyon nehringi), and the †Kraglievich's Wolf (Aenocyon gezi), they were also the only genus of old world canine to ever enter South America, the zhoukoudian wolf is considered the most basal species within the Aenocyon genus and the only known Old World member of the genus.
Despite whatever kind of games people are playing on that throne of there’s, one thing is for sure, Dire Wolves were not mythological beasts. 🐺
So it's something like "What looks like a duck, talks and walks like a duck probably is a potato?".( I forgot the exact phrase 😉)
Interesting. Although not a true wolf it must have been a very impressive looking canine🐶🐺
Thank You Anneka,your girl has gotten so big,so fast so beautiful.👍🐺💕
Could mastiffs perhaps go back to crossing a dire wolf and a dog way back when?
Maybe that would explain that ridiculously large skull of theirs.
Love your content! I’d love to see a future video on the Alano Español dog breed! Not a lot of information of them online but they seem really cool!
İyi gidiyorsun 💋
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I only have one complaint. Me lady, whomever created the thumbnail, insist on them never putting up some photo-shopped version of you! YOU do NOT need such a thing. You will still be a gorgeous woman 15 years from now. Never mind your beautiful spirit and soul.
The Dire wolf may have more in common with modern k-9's and not wolves according to some geneticist researching the gene sequences of the Dire Wolf, Modern Wolves and Domestic Dogs which means if the Dire Wolves have a genetic link to domestic Dogs there may have a missing link between them or there were domesticated Dogs when Dire wolves were around this could get very interesting.
I have just watched another clip about Dire Wolves. That video claims that Dire Wolves grew up to 1.5 metres tall and 150 pounds vastly different from your description. So, which is correct?
The smaller wolves and coyotes were omnivores instead of hyper carnivores. If prey is in short supply, they can subsist on a low protein heavily starch diet. Modern dogs have inherited the gene for it.
Your Ocean is an amazing wolf dog! And your husky should be a movie star! This was a memorable and informative documentary on dire wolves. Very useful family tree. La Brea tar pits are a treasure of well preserved fossils. They gave me my love of paleontology.
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Nicely done. Clear and concise information. I just went to the La Brea Tar Pits last week and it was phenomenal. 🐺
rhodesian ridgeback pure bred or mix, would appreciate your thoughts 👍
175 lbs is not the largest wolf ever recorded. It is only the largest wolf taken by the Alaskan Fish and Wildlife Services. The largest wolves are found in Alaska and the Yukon Territories of Northern Canada, which are separated by a line on a Map. But extremely large wolves can be found much further south. A wolf taken in Alberta has been estimated by experts to have weighed over 230 lbs. It certainly looked to be all of that in a photo, but there was no official weight taken.
The whole problem with this controversial topic is that it leads to shooting the largest and most healthy wild wolves in the prime of their lives. I know that many people would prefer we not do that. In any case, it is doubtful that 175 lbs is the maximum size for Grey Wolves in the Northern Alaska and Canadian territories.
hello my huskies eyes keep changing colour from deep brown to wolf yellow everyday she is pure white in fer colour pink nose but her eyes just keep on changing colour please can you tell me why????????
I'll just be satisfied with my pit bull. She doesn't eat as much as a Dire wolf would... and she's sentient smart.
I have a germent shephed Staffordshire bull terrier mix 26 Lb female Thats looks like an Australie dingo
Seriously Anneka , do you feel safe with wolfs ? I'm just interested 😊
I do 🙃
Now they have to rename it, its funny how much a "thought to be" species ends up being a "not to be" species!
So beautiful but I'd fear my olde English mastiff he killed 3 coyotes at once that went after one of my children but he is 33 inches at the shoulder and is 274 lbs at last wiegh in
Nooo!, There is only the so-called "werewolf" aka Hellhounds which are vessels for the Jinn/Demons/Earthbound spirits as in the city of the dead of the so-called "desert masters" known in modern times as the "Petra" (Cave city) as depicted in the film "Indiana Jones: And The last Crusade
Sounds like they were the Neanderthal equivalent ancestors of the modern wolf, larger, stronger but less cunning
Doubtful that they were less cunning it’s probably down to pack size breeding circumstances litter size and available prey. Probably just out paced due to size differences and perhaps a lack of adaptability to what resources would have been available to them.
@jim02122 Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs.
There are many different sub species of grey wolves.
The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric...
@@samo6083 we are speaking to supporting evidence that the dire wolves faded from existence due to competition. Similar to dingos and thylacine. Are you suggesting humans could have shot all the dire wolves?
I've seen footage of a blacked out wolf chasing two dogs that was easy 6 foot on all 4
Superb mam🔥🔥👍👍👍.. fantastic video ❤️❤️
Entertaining exciting, thank you!❤️👑👍
Are you gonna do a video on oceans siblings? Would be cool to see how there growing up
I believe there was a wolf around 200lbs easy with a bigger skull and slighter wider teeth(not a dire wolf 🐺 however it was before this creature) around 300,000 maybe 🤔. We dint have evidence of "Mammoth like" wolves with thicker coats and much longer tails. Even at the time of roman and anicent Sumerian empires giant wolves existed
More bone mass means it has more or denser muscle mass.
Aneka is my RUclips crush, I have a dogo Argentino .she loves everybody and every dog she meets.
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I love dogo argentino. I once helped to rescue one in a puppy mill. When I noticed it had a thick red toe, the owner offered me a discount. I was not capable of adopting it, but called in animal welfare. The puppy was really barely moving. She was barely alive and she was rushed to the vet. She and her sister survived. The lady of the shelter adopted her herself since she kind of comforted her cane corso that was mourning the loss of his mother, who she saved him with from another puppy mill. The dogo argentino girl became inseparable from the young cane corso male. I still hate the guy who was selling a dying puppy. It was almost 30 years ago, but the creep is still in businesses.
Dogos are beautiful dogs, I would love a cane corso to join my dogo ,she loves other dogs. Unfortunately I am not in a property suitable for two dogs
Fascinating. Thank you.
Ive seen a very large wolf behind my home. I recall when they opened wolf hunting season here there was an large specimen of 175--180 lb wolf taken in my county. Otheres ive seen were not near that size.
Where was this?
My beautiful 15 year old German shepherd Shepherd mix Fur baby girl is sadly reacting her end of life time she is still playful the signs are showing & I am just keeping her as happy & comfortable & Spoiled as possible but my heart is breaking. ❤️😥😢🐕🦺💔
So your fur babies will have a New friend on the other side of the Rainbow bridge. ❤️😢😥🐕🦺🐕💔
I still call my old fur baby girl my old wolf animal watch. 😉🐕🦺🐺🤣❤️
This means that with the help of their size and powerful jaws they can easily beat the Mastiff dogs😮🐺
No evidence to suggest it, but I wonder if they explain molossers. Some ancient ones were said to be enormous. Perhaps there’s an evolutionary link, domesticating these dire wolves. Having owned a few mastiffs I think of them as a separate species than other domestic dogs. My current neo is like a dinosaur. Not like other dogs at all in mass and strength. So have to wonder where these dogs really came from in Ancient Rome and Greece. Dogs that would pull down elephants.
And yes i did enjoy this episode very much, thankyou again
Interesting concept 🤔
That is not possible. All dogs came from wolves in eurasia. Aenocyon dirus was NOT a wolf at all and only distantly related to grey wolves.
Fossil remains of dire wolves have been found in Asia 2017
basically there a 6 million years old unchanged species and it seams human history going back before Grey wolves but after larger predators and prey. it looks more like humans didn't get much a chance till the peek of the last ice age then today there's nothing left for humans to really struggle with. it's sad the Grey wolf continues because it's bigger brain but that seams to be the trend of evolution "smarter not harder" being the apex that humans are!
Great vídeo, but the latest data i saw show the dire Wolf way bigger than you say
No. There are two sub species. One is shorter and one larger but the largest dire wolf is no taller than the tallest north western grey wolf. They are absolutely thicker and heavier
Nope it doesn‘t.
@Animal-Watch Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs.
There are many different sub species of grey wolves.
The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall....
Wolves in Alberta can get over 200lbs.
May I ask what breed of dog Ocean is bred with to get her amazing blue color?
When I awoke the dire wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was come on in
Good job lots good info
Your description is incorrect, =cyon is latin meaning "dog" not "wolf", so the dire wolf's current scientific name actually now means "direly dreadful dog".
Why is longer snout correlated to more food available? And i think you mention less-cranial crest
Anneka Google this GIANT WOLF ATTACKS HOUSE DOG.
Canadian wildlife authorities believe that this Wolf is 220 pounds.
They believe it was 6ft tall.
No wolf is 6ft tall
@@Animal-Watchyou never know
@Animal-Watch McKenzie wolves literally get to 7ft in length, this isn't pseudo science. It's facts 😂
Dire wolves hunted large ice age herbivores such as Ancient bison, horses, ground sloths, camels, even mammoths and mastodons were potentially on the menu.
My Great Dane/American Bulldog mix Jester is 140lbs and stands 33 inches at his shoulder so pretty close to the size of a dire wolf. Thankfully he’s a lover not a fighter
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs.
There are many different sub species of grey wolves.
The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall...
Will you try to find a Ghadrejani dog?
Awesome.
Current wolves are likely descendants of dire wolves.
evolutionists find it difficult to be honest.
Very exciting learning about these majestic animals. Thank you for a great episode !
So how powerful was the dire wolf’s bite force. 125 % more than the contemporary wolf’s which is ??? How could you give a comparison without giving the actual bite force. Without context like the actual number of foot pounds of force any comparison is meaningless. Kind of an unforgivable lapse of judgement since you brought up the topic in the first place.
Most modern experts surmise that many of these species were wiped out by Indian over:-bunting.
the fight for the bed was epic
you listened about the measurements, thank you 😍
and thank you for the nice videos!
Lindos....👏👏👏 Maravilhosos...😍😍😍
So, would the gray wolf be to the dire wolf like we are to the Neanderthal??
Yhhh this whole thing about dire wolves being bigger than grey wolves is bs.
There are many different sub species of grey wolves.
The largest one was the kenai wolf that weight about 200 pounds, stood at almost 4ft at the shoulder and was 7ft in length on AVERAGE!!! They were around in the 1900s but humans hunted them to extinction. These guys are literally larger than dire wolves in every single metric, with that size they are towering over any dire wolf and are more comparable with the proportions/ dimensions of a lion who also stands around 4ft tall...
Nothing to do with modern wolves but still the same type of creature :) So why do we need so many classification and sub-classifications ? In the end they are beautiful killing machines and the only thing we should ever load our brain with about them and all other such beasts from all species is how to avoid the, how to defend from them and never become prey. We need not find (new) names and specifications as to compare them afterwards :)
These are very fascinating and informative videos but c'mon the snapshot of the video.. 🔥
That grey dog is beautiful
Thankyou. That’s Ocean and her episode is here: ruclips.net/video/tTbOcETkEtg/видео.htmlsi=IONtIbU9Dn0q5Qga
Would they make good pets?
I love Ocean she is so beautiful💕❤️
لاإله إلا الله ربي وحده لاشريك له له الملك وله الحمد يحيي ويميت وهو حي لايموت أبدا بيده الخير وإليه المصير وهو على كل شيء قدير
Can you do video on American Wolfdog?
She has
That’s true Larry, I have. Quite a few! X
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Which ones? Can’t find the titles
I swear if that is your pet and it's a I like it because it looks free free soft
I meant to say wolf when I said a ok
Thx for the video, although the information kind of disappointed me
and detracted from the image I had
Sorry, science wins 😀
Mammoths went extinct when the pyramids were built, and the Moose is the largest Deer that ever lived, so the theory that there was not enough large prey doesn’t really hold up well.
We have a small pack of some Mexican wolfs or red wolves on my land in NM. I have called and a group of college kids came wanting to put collar’s on them, but they are next to impossible to find, they have to come out on their own. Shoot I only seen them probably less then 20 times. They don’t mess with our live stock or dogs, the students asked I do t post any pics or location which I have never did. Believe it or not people even here in America would poach or even mistake them for yots. They are a majestic breed, they look like red coyotes, but the student said they are Mexican. 😂😂
Could you add Japanese captions to this video?
is gorgeous the terrible wolf
For all things big and great . They were put here for a reason. Not for us whom stays and who goes. For the grace of God we go❤❤❤❤
*I dare say those DOGS wouldn't stand a chance with early cats; cave lions, saber tooth, etc*
A wonderfully beastly beast!🤣🤣
There's been a lot of documentation that direwolves mainly roamed Canada 🇨🇦
The taurid meteor shower was to blame. Twice a year earth passes through and earth was hit by a huge comet. We are in a shooting gallery every year.
you can see a wolf and are still beautiful
I think grey wolves might have gone extinct too if they weren't so intelligent and adaptable. It's a case of brain over brawn.
Also the grey wolf could hunt the smaller, faster prey which the dire wolf couldn’t catch
@Animal-Watch From what I've seen and read, they're quick to exploit opportunities too. They also learn quickly if it suits them.
we still seem to have them, now called Dogman.