A team from the Royal Ontario Museum has used new technology to positively identify a fossil of a dire wolf found in Canada.
An artist's impression of a dire wolf is seen in an undated handout photo. For the first time, a Canadian fossil has been confirmed as having come from the Ice Age predator featured in the TV series. 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.. "This had never been done for this specimen.
Photos show the fossil of the dire wolf jaw from the outside, the top and the inside. The entire specimen, which is between 25,000 and 50,000 years old, consists of one jaw, badly crushed, with some remaining teeth. 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.The team took points along the outline of the fossil and used a computer program to estimate its shape. They compared that with known values from grey and dire wolves.A figure from the new study shows the lower jaw of a grey wolf, top, a dire wolf from Peru, middle, and the badly crushed fossil found in Medicine Hat, Alta.
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