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[126] [134] [125] [129] There possibly existed a panmictic wolf population with gene flow spanning Eurasia and North America until the closing of the ice sheets. [126] [135] [129] Once the sheets closed, the southern wolves were isolated and north of the sheets only the Beringian wolf existed. The land bridge became inundated by the sea 10,000 ...
The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today. [17]
That study and his 1940–41 work The Wolves of Mount McKinley was instrumental in building a scientific foundation for wolf conservation. [13] In 1944, noted wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold, once an avid predator control advocate, made the following comments in his review of The Wolves of North America, Young and Goldman, 1944:
As wolves had been in the fossil record of North America but the genetic ancestry of modern wolves could be traced back only 80,000 years, [22] [23] the wolf haplotypes that were already in North America were replaced by these invaders, either through competitive displacement or through genetic admixture. The replacement in North America of a ...
The werewolf trials. While most people know of the witch trials that took place in Europe and in the American colonies (including Salem, Massachusetts) during the 1500's and 1600's, few are aware ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Extinct species of canine mammal For the fictional creature in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, see Direwolf (Game of Thrones). For other uses, see Dire wolf (disambiguation). Dire wolf Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – early Holocene (125,000–9,500 years ago) Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P ...
In 2019, a genomic study on the wolves of China included museum specimens of wolves from southern China that were collected between 1963 and 1988. The wolves in the study formed three clades: northern Asian wolves that included those from northern China and eastern Russia, Himalayan wolves from the Tibetan Plateau, and a unique population from ...