Introduction to Dire Wolves Dire Wolves A Journey Through Time a vast Pleistocene landscape, where massive wolves with powerful jaws hunted giant bison and horses under a chilly sky. These were dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus), awe-inspiring predators that roamed North America from about 250,000 to 10,000 years ago. Often mistaken for oversized versions of modern […]
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The Yangtze finless porpoise is a small whale with teeth that lives only in China’s Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia. It’s the only freshwater porpoise in the world and is in serious danger of disappearing, with only about 1,249 left in 2023. It used to share the river with the baiji, a freshwater
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How Big Were Direwolves—and What Did They Really Look Like? If you’ve ever watched Game of Thrones, you probably remember those giant, loyal, and fearsome creatures called direwolves. But here’s a fun fact Size and Physical Appearance of direwolves were real animals, not just fantasy. So, what were they really like?Were they actually that big?And
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The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus: dog-headed pouched-dog) is a large carnivorous marsupial now believed to be extinct. It was the only member of the family Thylacinidae to survive into modern times. It is also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf. The thylacine (/ˈθaɪləsiːn/; binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), The thylacine, also called the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, was a
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The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a shaggy, Ice Age giant and one of the last surviving members of the mammoth family. These incredible animals roamed the earth from the Middle Pleistocene until their extinction in the Holocene—meaning they walked alongside early humans for quite a long time! Woolly mammoths were part of a long
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sabre-toothed cat, any of the extinct catlike carnivores belonging to either the extinct family Nimravidae or the subfamily Machairodontinae of the cat family (Felidae). Named for the pair of elongated bladelike canine teeth in their upper jaw, they are often called sabre-toothed tigers or sabre-toothed lions, although the modern lion and tiger are true cats of the subfamily Felinae. Sabre-toothed cats existed from the Eocene through the Pleistocene Epoch (56
Mammoths didn’t just look like elephants — they were actually part of the elephant family! Modern elephants and mammoths both belong to the same family, called Elephantidae. But here’s something interesting: mammoths didn’t turn into the elephants we see today. Instead, they were more like distant cousins. The elephant family first appeared in Africa around
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You know those jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals you see in aquariums or ocean documentaries? Believe it or not, they’re all part of the same weird and wonderful animal family, called cnidarians. (It’s a tricky word — it sounds like “nid-air-ee-ans.”) They might not look related at first glance, but they all have soft bodies,
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This article is about the dolphin. For other uses, see Baiji (disambiguation). Baiji[1] Qiqi, the last confirmed baiji, who died in 2002 Size compared to an average human Conservation status Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[2] CITES Appendix I (CITES)[3] Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Suborder: Whippomorpha Infraorder: Cetacea Clade: Delphinida Superfamily:
The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is a species of orangutan restricted to South Tapanuli in the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.[3] It is one of three known species of orangutan, alongside the Sumatran orangutan (P. abelii), found farther northwest on the island, and the Bornean orangutan (P. pygmaeus). It was described as a distinct species in 2017.[4] As of 2018, there are roughly 800 individuals of this species and it is currently
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