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Post by DarkWolfen96 on Jun 11, 2004 0:13:50 GMT -5
i know their not cats but i thought i would go better in a prehistoric catogory so its just anything about dire wolves
if you dont know there extint wolves they were powerful and the size im not sure most the sites i went to said 5 feet tall but a couple said 5 feet long does any one know for sure
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Post by DarkWolfen96 on Jun 12, 2004 11:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by Lion Boss on Jun 12, 2004 14:24:55 GMT -5
In the book Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives they have a reconstruction scale pic of several La Brea Tar pits animals. The N.A. Lion (P. leo atrox), N.A. Smilodon (fatalis), Short Faced Bear and Dire Wolf. Well, the dire wolf is actually rather small.  Each square is 50 by 50 cm. That's about 1.65 ft |
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Post by DarkWolfen96 on Jun 12, 2004 15:56:50 GMT -5
there either five feet long or tall do u know witch they do look smalll
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Post by Lion Boss on Jun 13, 2004 0:01:44 GMT -5
Like I said, that picture has the squares at 50 cm on the side.
Therefore the Dire Wolf is about 75cm at the shoulder and a little over 100 cm from nose to rump.
Translation: about 2.5 feet at the shoulder and about 3.5 feet from nose to rump.
I don't know about 5 feet. Maybe a very large Dire Wolf could be 5 feet from nose to tip of tail.
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Post by DarkWolfen96 on Jun 13, 2004 0:33:50 GMT -5
i looked at a lotta sites and they said 5 feet o well maybe theres different kinds of dire wolves
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Post by Lion Boss on Jun 13, 2004 20:49:12 GMT -5
Probably. Remember, that picture only shows the La Brea tar pit carnivores. I'm sure there were much larger species of the Dire Wolf.
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Post by DarkWolfen96 on Jun 14, 2004 0:51:40 GMT -5
yeah it would be so awsome to see what all those animals really looked like that lived back then
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Post by AliensWolfX on Jun 16, 2004 0:23:06 GMT -5
they would have been cool 2 see.
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Post by legendarycroc on Oct 5, 2004 18:12:33 GMT -5
largest ive seen about 100cm at shoulders, and under 6 ft, 10% larger than an alaskan timber wolf. Im guessing the dire wolf, could reach 200-250 lbs in weight, cuz it needed a warm coat cuz it lived in the ice age
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