they competed along side other loner predators and lost this also killed off cave bear and smilodon humans won cause of throwing spears
Improved: Why/How did these animals become extinct? Many hypotheses exist. The Dire Wolf skeleton is more stout than that of the Gray Wolf, suggesting an adaptation for power rather than speed. Most of its prey species were rather sedentary herbivorous animals that were not able to run very fast to escape predation. Scientists suspect that once those relatively slow-moving prey animals became extinct, the Dire Wolf may not have been able to hunt and capture swifter prey in order to survive.
Source?: http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/mystery/fg_direwolf.html
The dire wolf was alive in the time of the iceage, Grey wolves were also living then as well. There is two theories as to why the Dire wolf did not make it but their cousin the Grey wolf did.
1) Dire wolves were much larger there for hunted larger and more dangerous prey this means more percentage of deaths occurred during hunting
2) Dire wolves were thought to take care of one another (unlike Modern day wolves) Dires shared their prey with the aging and sick thus was the downfall because the whole survival of the fittest not enough food to go around.
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The dire wolf went extinct near the end of the last ice age, around 12000 years ago. Dire wolves preyed on the mega herbivores, and as they died out, compitition from the smaller and more common gray wolf lead to this species demise.
Mostly they ate prehistoric horses (I saw it on the discovery channel)
they ate prehistoric bison sloth and horses if you have netflix type this and search it preditors and in the first episode it says wolf click it and it talks babout dire wolves and gray wolves
Dire wolves were predators much like the Timber Wolf is today. They would've hunted down bison, deer, wild horse, etc.
Because they were so large and efficiant at killing
the dire wolf
- gray wolves - dire wolves - Alaskan wolves These Are The Most Powerful Wolves In Order From Strongest To weakest But They Are All Powerful.
It is not factually known, but many historians believe it is because the Dire Wolf's food source (larger mammals) ran out.
Because we have only found the bones of dire wolves, it is impossible to know what color they were. It would be reasonable to guess that they were gray or black, like modern wolves and coyotes, although it is possible that they were a variety of other colors.
yes
Cave bears, dire wolves, and prehistoric humans
Little to nothing. Dire wolves did indeed come across the early native Americans, but they were competitors for food. Although this competition may have participated in the wolves extinction, it didn't entirely cause it.
1. Dire wolves existed until 10,000 years ago. 2. Dire wolves lived in North and South America. 3. Dire wolves were 5 ft long and weighed 130 to 190 lbs. 4. They probably hunted in packs, similar to modern wolves. 5. Remains from over 3,600 dire wolves have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits. That is more than any other mammal species. 6. The Alsatian Shepalute is a type of dog specifically bred to match the size and bone structure of the Dire wolf. 7. The scientific name of the Dire wolf is Canis dirus. It belongs to the same genus as modern dogs and gray wolves. 8. Canis dirus probably evolved from Canis ambrusteri, another type of extinct dog. 9. The first Canis dirus fossil to be discovered was a jawbone. It was found in Evansville, Indiana during the summer of 1854. 10. Joseph Leidy assigned the scientific name to the Dire wolf.
well the red wolves are almost gone but the dire wolf is defiantly extinct. they died in the ice age. well a little after that time.