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.
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