Researchers at the Natural History Museum’s La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

they knew there was one place with no shortage of dire wolf fossils: La Brea Tar Pits, an iconic “predator trap” in what is now Los Angeles. But past efforts to extract substantial stretches ...

Dire wolf skulls have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, one of the richest and most diverse collection of Ice Age fossils. The ancient canids likely lived in packs, coordinating with each other ...

Nearly 4,000 dire wolf fossils have been identified at California's La Brea Tar Pits. About 25% larger than modern-day gray wolves, dire wolves had thicker, more muscular legs, more powerful ...

Many dire wolf remains have been found in the La Brea tar pits, for example, but the tar pit damages the DNA, said Beth Shapiro, Colossal's chief science officer. Shapiro and the researchers at ...

The Colossal website explains that many dire wolf fossils were preserved in the La Brea tar pits, in the Los Angeles area, but the species' DNA was not preserved in the tar. But using two dire ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

Now, scientists say they’ve brought the dire wolf back to life. But other experts are skeptical about that claim. L.A. Times reporting fellow Kaitlyn Huamani joined Lisa McRee to explain.

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...