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dire wolf

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dire wolf
n.
A large wolflike mammal (Canis dirus) that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene Epoch.


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Three were herbivores--the western horse, the ancient bison, and the 2-meter-tall Harlan's ground sloth-and four were predators--the dire wolf, the saber-toothed cat, the North American lion, and the coyote.
After all, the mastodon and dire wolf vanished 10,000 years ago, and only a handful of buffalo remain.
Earlier, smaller excavations near the reservoir site have already uncovered mammoth and mastodon fossils and tusks, as well as the remains of an extinct zebra-like horse, bison, ground sloths, camel and dire wolf.
 
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