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Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs

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The Dire Wolf and the Grateful Dead

"I went on this like bonkers road trip where I just drove everywhere I could think of that might have dire wolf bones," he says. "When we tested those, there's just no relationship at all." They are more closely related to jackals than they are Great Wolves or dogs or coyotes and were 5.8 million years ago.

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