Dire wolf

You know, they had Ziploc bags with them and, and put it in, in a protective bag to, uh, to have it analyzed.

And when we had our biologist, Ben Woodruff, analyze it, he was shocked to find out that the direct match, I mean, we're talking direct match to this jawbone, was a, an over 10,000-year-old extinct dire wolf.

And he, he, [laughs] he was stunned.

We were stunned.

The coyote won.

Today, we're covering that war and the two brothers who exposed it, the footprints at White Sands, and the dire wolves.

Real dire wolves? Finally, one that might outlive that Starkid.

There's a moment where Dan analyzes a set of 23,000-year-old footprints like a witness statement.

A teenage girl, a toddler on her hip, a ground sloth rearing up when it catches her scent.

What Colossal did was to go into the specimens collections around America, and the dire wolf is very specifically an American wolf.

It's not found anywhere else in the world.

So, uh, you know, unfortunately for George R.R. Martin, there would've been no dire wolves in medieval Westeros, uh, wherever Westeros was, which looks an awful lot like sort of Western Europe, but-

You know, they had Ziploc bags with them and, and put it in, in a protective bag to, uh, to have it analyzed.

And when we had our biologist, Ben Woodruff, analyze it, he was shocked to find out that the direct match, I mean, we're talking direct match to this jawbone, was a, an over 10,000-year-old extinct dire wolf.

And he-

What?

Well, to actually recover biology on that property that points toward it being true is, is one of the, I mean, one of the many, I think, validating and gratifying parts of our investigation.

Wow.

A dire wolf.

Wow, wow, wow.

So the dire wolf could weigh 150 pounds and stood a little larger than most other wolves that we know about today.

They lived in the Americas during the late Plasticine period from about 125,000 years ago to as recently as just 10,000 years ago.

So it's fair to say there were humans like us that would have seen some of these dire wolves before they went extinct.

Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Jeff.

What's that? Well, on October 1st, 2024, Colossal Biosciences announced the return of the dire wolf.

That's why Vincent is adamant.

These are not the same dire wolves that existed thousands of years ago.

These are something new.

And at least some of the s- mutations that they introduced appear to be explicitly to make it like Ghost from Game of Thrones.

That's right.

Scientists aren't even completely sure what color real-life dire wolves were.

So Colossal Bioscience has crafted them to match the fictional wolves from HBO's Game of Thrones.

For Ben Lamm, the CEO of Colossal, all of this is just semantics.

Well, the lion, we know, has always been of the tribe of Judah.

Again, that's Game of Thrones, right? Y- y- you see that he takes the wolf up instead of the lion, right? And the lion is what runs, like, the f- Game of Thrones for a long time, and the, the wolf ends up being the Direwolf family, ends up being the one to take over.

Isn't that interesting? Again, with the Osirian mysteries.

By the way, guys, I have a Jewish folklore book that I have in my house right now, and don't worry, I prayed over it.

Under a year and starving from the look.

Maybe a dire wolf, wrote another, because I don't believe they're all gone.

Speculation roamed as far as identifying that the animal was a cryptocannid species said to roam the forests of North America.

Quote, this could very well be what's being called dog man, one poster suggested.

Oh, I'm going to waste at least 20 years of my life looking into this shit.

Well, evidently, Oakley, one but wildlife biologist, doesn't believe.

Dire Wolf was a song by the Grateful Dead from 1971, he said, of the prehistoric species speculation.

I know.