CONTENTS Chapter 1 What Was a Dire Wolf Chapter 2 What Did a Dire Wolf Look Like Chapter 3 How Did a Dire Wolf Live Glossary Index About the Author 4 8 13 22 23 23
4 WHAT WAS A DIRE WOLF You've probably seen all kinds of dogs and wolves But you haven't seen all of them Long ago a species called the dire wolf roamed Earth It lived between 250,000 to 10,000 years ago The name dire wolf comes from Latin words meaning terrible wolf But this doesn't mean the wolves were bad It means they were huge and scary
Dire wolves lived during the Late Pleistocene epoch Their prey included animals like the Columbian mammoth 5
