Direwolves from Game of Thrones actually existed!

Direwolves from Game of Thrones actually existed!

The dire wolf is not so much mythological as it is extinct. It was most common in North and South America, living from 1.8 million to 10 000 years ago; approximately 1.79 million years. The dire wolf averaged about 4.9 feet in length and weighed between 100-174 pounds.


The dire wolf’s bite was 129% the force of the modern gray wolf and could hold and subdue their prey. However, it was the crossing of the gray wolf as well as human beings into the dire wolf’s natural habitat that led to it's extinction. Most of the large mammals which they depended on began to die out, and they went with them.


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