Researchers from Sweden’s Centre for Palaeogenetics (SCP) took a sample of the animal’s rib bone and used carbon dating to determine that it had been buried underneath the frozen tundra for ...

As the island’s study team has discovered, wolf bones yield a wealth of information. M183's incisors showed pitting of enamel which may indicate poor mineralization of enamel early in life.

Dreadful wolf. The dire wolf—once classified in the genus Aenocyon, meaning “terrible” or “dreadful”—is a much mythologized carnivore known for its imposing size, specialized bone ...

When its large prey animals vanished in the Ice Age, so too did the large bone-crushing gray wolf. Its smaller and more generalised cousin, with its more varied diet, lived to hunt another day.

But recent genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone fragment, likely part of a rib, found below a frozen cliff in Siberia has shown canine domestication may have occurred much earlier.

This uber-wolf was discovered by Jennifer Leonard and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles. The group were studying the remains of ancient gray wolves, frozen in permafrost in ...