Canis dirus, Dire Wolf skull Troodon in the middle of the

in the middle of the Late Devonian period

Our artists captured every detail of this attention-demanding beast

similar to the gape of a modern lion

mineral-laden water

Canis dirus, Dire Wolf skull Troodon in the middle of theThe Dire Wolf, Canis dirus, is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis, and was most common in North America and South America from the Irvingtonian stage to the Rancholabrean stage of the Pleistocene epoch living 1. 80 Ma 10,000 years ago. Although it was closely related to the Gray Wolf and other sister species, Canis dirus was not the direct ancestor of any species known today. Despite superficial similarities to the Gray Wolf, there were