Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Mexican Great Wolves
i40 in Arizona and New Mexico is the northern boundary of the Mexican Great Wolves. We don't have a lot of sites where we have overlap between dire wolves and humans, he says. No obvious interaction like no tools made from dire wolf bones or nothing very specific like that. Around 12 to 13,000 years ago is the time when a lot of those mega predators in America start to go. So there may have been like a kind of holdout group in the southwest that kind of held on for some period of time before petering out.
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