Meet the old wolves, same as the new wolves

From Austin, Texas, at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

An analysis of fossils from southern California’s La Brea tar pits hints that the dire wolf, a species that died out at the end of the last ice age, had a social structure similar to that of its modern-day relatives.

Dire wolves are the most common predators entombed at La Brea (SN: 1/24/04, p.