10 WEIRD Facts about DIRE WOLVES

Game of Thrones' Dire Wolves aren't fiction, and here's 10 weird things you may not have known about them. Subscribe to Love Nature! http://bit.ly/1kdWXiS Learn more here: The Dire Wolf Project: http://theamericanalsatian.tripod.com/direwolfproject/ http://www.wired.com/2013/03/dire-wolf-pet-dog/ Game of Thrones Direwolves: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Direwolves Dire Wolf Physical Characteristics, Extinction, General Facts : http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/_extinct/direwolf/direwolf.htm http://www.sdnhm.org/archive/exhibits/mystery/fg_direwolf.html Dire Wolf is the largest Canis: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/fossilspeciesCanisdirus.htm Dire Wolf vs. Saber Tooth http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018203007739 http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/mesozoicmammals/p/dire-wolf.htm Hypercarnivore and teeth: http://books.google.ca/books/about/Walker_s_Mammals_of_the_World.html?id=T37sFCl43E8C http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00043.x/abstract;jsessionid=0FDCDE37AD8412AD3F78B4C68F6F3D6A.f01t02 Bite Force: Barry Lopez in Of Wolves and Men states the bite force of a Grey Wolf is 1500 PSI. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Of_Wolves_and_Men.html?id=YeiU2OnJKaUC&redir_esc=y In a video from National Geographic, they state the bite force of a Grey Wolf is 406 PSI. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/dangerous-encounters/videos/wolf-bite-force/ The bite force of a Dire Wolf is estimated to be 129% that of the Grey Wolf. http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/_extinct/direwolf/direwolf.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TMr2Rj3_fA

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1. Prehistoric Human: OMG, that's a huge ass wolf... I kinda wanna pet it and feed it to see if it can help me get some more food.
   ??? years later - Nobody knows how dire wolves went extinct!
2. I know that dire wolves can grow to be bigger than a pony
3. My dream is to see a dire wolf irl
4. You don't need a saddle to ride them.
5. In a documentary I watched long ago, Dire Wolves were taken care of by their pack members. A skeleton of a dire wolf was found in a tar pit and had a broken hind leg that looked like it healed well,this means that the wolf broke it's leg at some point of its life and managed to still survive for a long time for the bone to heal . The theory is that the dire wolf pack protected the injured wolf and continued to feed it, once healed the wolf continued to hunt and at some point was caught in a tar pit and died. Which means that the dire wolves took care of each other instead of leaving the injured wolf to die and continue on their way.
6. Canis Ananas
7. Who knew this from ark
8. They are most likely extinct because the evolved. Being smaller made it easier to run long distances (how wolves usually catch prey is by tiring them out). It also means they wouldnt need as much to eat. Yes, they were then in competition with the smaller, faster (assuming) wolves.
   
   Sry is this just me or does this make sense?
   
   I believe this is what happened to most dinosaurs, they evolved
9. the dire wolf wasn't a wolf but it was a wolf like creature so it couldn't really be a wolf
10. "Stronger bite force than a hippo"
    Me: shiiiiiii*** 0_0
11. I don't want a fucking dog
12. if you are love in nature stop swearing
13. I wonder if modern wolves have some Dire wolf DNA that could be extracted to bring that wolf back?
14. apparently there's an 11th weird fact you didn't know about dire wolves. we have plenty of genetic material in the tar pits of la brea; so the info you gave up front was wrong... there may yet be a group of scientist that can bring back the real direwolf not a copy like breeders want to do
15. THEY BECAME EXTINCT 12000 YEARS AGO DUE TO AN METEOR IMPACT ON THE PLANET. 90 % of the earths habitat died as well. FACTS
16. What do I know about dire wolves? Um... my username
17. copying off of vlog bros doodleydoo.
18. a direwolf when beat a sabertooth in a fight
19. I love canines so much❤️️❤️️❤️️