SciShow: Dire Wolves Were Real! But Not Wolves

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. When you hear the words dire wolf, your mind might jump to Game of Thrones or Dungeons and Dragons, but dire wolves are not just in the realm of fantasy and fiction. They were real animals that lived during the last Ice Age, and we're still learning a lot about them, like the fact that they aren't wolves! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Special thanks to Dr. Angela Perri https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03082-x https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00043.x https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2004.2986 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01569-x https://www.britannica.com/animal/thylacine Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mammoth-walking-on-snow-covered-hills-mountain-environment-this-is-a-3d-render-gm1214625185-353459400 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dire-wolf-head-gm1169035654-323003579 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dire-wolf-on-white-gm925090822-253868959 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canis_dirus_Sternberg_Museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_age_fauna_of_northern_Spain_-_Mauricio_Ant%C3%B3n.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dire_Wolf_Skulls_La_Brea_2005-08-01.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-gray-wolf-or-grey-wolf-is-a-species-of-canid-native-to-the-wilderness-and-remote-gm1216700737-354883930 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canis_lupus_%26_Aenocyon_dirus.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/252998.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-wolves-gm157279701-423189 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/244066.php?from=478435 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/human-dna-double-helix-circular-prokaryote-chromosome-and-mitochondrial-dna-gm1159179346-316881551 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolf-near-the-road-gm1218844336-356310748 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dhole_Asiatic_wild_dog_(Cuon_alpinus)_(5798357684).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_wild_dog_(24273710124).jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/side-striped-jackal-in-the-serengeti-grasslands-gm152154488-14070069 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dire-wolf-side-profile-gm1169035723-323003628 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolf-at-bayerischer-wald-national-park-germany-gm970057960-264327500 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacinus.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolves-running-in-winter-gm508208981-45994740 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canis_dirus.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/silver-wolf-standing-on-a-forest-howling-gm172166960-2425276 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/arctic-wolves-pack-in-wildlife-gm156323231-21827666 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dire-wolf-howling-gm1269164923-372625801 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dire-wolf-gm1156349204-315118853


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