On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf
Gregory L Gedman, Kathleen Morrill Pirovich, Jonas Oppenheimer, Chaz Hyseni, Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, Alexander G Lucaci, Nicolas Alexandre, William Troy, J Chris Chao, Olivier Fedrigo, Savannah J Hoyt, Patrick GS Grady, Sam Sacco, William Seligmann, Ayusman Dash, Mithil Chokshi, Laura Knecht, James B Papizan, Tyler Miyawaki, Sven Bocklandt, James Kelher, Sara Ord, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Audrey T Lin, Brandon R Peecook, Angela Perri, Mikkel-Holger S Sinding, Greger Larson, Julie Meachen, Love Dalén, Bridgett vonHoldt, M Thomas P Gilbert, Christopher E Mason, Rachel J O'Neill, Elinor K Karlsson, Brandi L Cantarel, George RR Martin, George Church, Ben Lamm, Beth Shapiro · 2026
Read On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf by Gregory L Gedman, Kathleen Morrill Pirovich, Jonas Oppenheimer, Chaz Hyseni, Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, Alexander G Lucaci, Nicolas Alexandre, William Troy, J Chris Chao, Olivier Fedrigo, Savannah J Hoyt, Patrick GS Grady, Sam Sacco, William Seligmann, Ayusman Dash, Mithil Chokshi, Laura Knecht, James B Papizan, Tyler Miyawaki, Sven Bocklandt, James Kelher, Sara Ord, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Audrey T Lin, Brandon R Peecook, Angela Perri, Mikkel-Holger S Sinding, Greger Larson, Julie Meachen, Love Dalén, Bridgett vonHoldt, M Thomas P Gilbert, Christopher E Mason, Rachel J O'Neill, Elinor K Karlsson, Brandi L Cantarel, George RR Martin, George Church, Ben Lamm, Beth Shapiro (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13477035.txt.
Description
Gregory L Gedman and a large team read ancient dire wolf genomes in 2026 to place the extinct predator on the dog family tree. Two well-kept fossils, one over thirteen thousand years old and one over seventy-two thousand, gave the DNA. Family trees were built against ten living dog relatives. Dire wolves looked like gray wolves yet had never sat firmly in the tree.
About two thirds of dire wolf ancestry traced to a line sister to wolves, coyotes, and dholes together. The last third came from near the base of the wider dog group. Blending after species split thus shaped the dire wolf deeply. Ancient DNA can settle identity debates that bones alone cannot.
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| CREATOR | Gregory L Gedman, Kathleen Morrill Pirovich, Jonas Oppenheimer, Chaz Hyseni, Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, Alexander G Lucaci, Nicolas Alexandre, William Troy, J Chris Chao, Olivier Fedrigo, Savannah J Hoyt, Patrick GS Grady, Sam Sacco, William Seligmann, Ayusman Dash, Mithil Chokshi, Laura Knecht, James B Papizan, Tyler Miyawaki, Sven Bocklandt, James Kelher, Sara Ord, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Audrey T Lin, Brandon R Peecook, Angela Perri, Mikkel-Holger S Sinding, Greger Larson, Julie Meachen, Love Dalén, Bridgett vonHoldt, M Thomas P Gilbert, Christopher E Mason, Rachel J O'Neill, Elinor K Karlsson, Brandi L Cantarel, George RR Martin, George Church, Ben Lamm, Beth Shapiro |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |