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The skeleton of an actual dire wolf from the La Brea Tar Pits, very different from whatever these new “dire wolves” are. Source: Jonathan Chen / CC BY-SA 4.0.
9 APR 2025 · 3 MIN

Did They Really Resurrect the Dire Wolf? Not Exactly…

Recently the papers have been filled with news about a creature brought back to life out of ancient history. The “Dire Wolf” was an enormous canine carnivore found in the Americas from…
The canids found in Alaska date back 12,000 years ago, but Man’s Best Friend then was likely a domesticated wolf population, not the ancestors of modern dogs. Source: son_gismo / CC BY 2.0.
6 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Man’s Best Friend: Human-Dog Ties in the Americas are 12,000 Years Old

A new study has revealed that the cooperative bond between humans and canines in the Americas may date back as far as the Late Pleistocene, some 12,000 years ago. This pushes back…
Something strange has been found on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Two sets of footprints show two different hominin species, apparently coexisting.
2 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Cross-Species Friends? 1.5 Million Year Old Footprints Show Hominins Cohabiting

Lake Turkana in Kenya feels like an alien world. The lake, brackish and saline, is surrounded by desert and what life survives in the area does so in defiance of its inhospitable…