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Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

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Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from ...

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10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

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0000-0002-4349-1060
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Nature Research
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591
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2021
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87-91
Publication date:
2021-01-13
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2020-11-12
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1476-4687
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0028-0836
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1156516
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2021-01-15

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