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Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

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Science revealed that their genetic material associates more with living African jackals than existing wolf populations. The dire wolves never mingled with other species, so they never acquired ...

They compared it to the genomes of similar animals, including wolves, jackals and foxes, to pinpoint genes specific to dire wolves and recreate them. The grey wolf is the dire wolf’s closest ...

In fact, animals like jackals, African wild dogs, and dholes are genetically closer to grey wolves than dire wolves are - even though dire wolves look more like grey wolves. Due to the genetic ...

Previous research could not resolve their evolutionary origin, causing speculation that jackals may be their closest living relative. Colossal said its high-quality dire wolf genome revealed that ...

We know what makes a dire wolf a dire wolf including that it is not closer to a jackal. We will be submitting that data next week for peer review. Colossal has always said that we are doing ...

From those two specimens, the Colossal team recovered enough DNA to create two dire wolf genomes to compare with other canid species, including coyotes, jackals, dholes and other wolves.

Using this DNA, the researchers pieced together a partial dire wolf genome, which they then compared with the genomes of the dire wolf's closest living relatives, including wolves, jackals and foxes.

jackals and foxes. This allowed them to identify the genetic variants for traits specific to dire wolves, such as white coats, longer, thick fur, slighty wider heads and a stronger jaw ...