Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a ...

The first fossils were found in 1854 in the Ohio River in Indiana ... but it's not like truly living in the wild. So, could there come a day when dire wolves are a natural part of the landscape?

The researchers studied a 13,000 year-old dire wolf tooth unearthed in Ohio and a 72,000 year ... that it had cloned four red wolves using blood drawn from wild wolves of the southeastern U.S ...