Dire wolf from "Game of Thrones" there really

It's hard to believe, but some of the animals that inhabit the fictional universe of the popular television series "Game of Thrones" existed in reality.

The prototype dire wolf can serve as so-called terrible wolves inhabited the territory of North and South America, nearly 1, 8 million years ago and became extinct about 10 thousand years ago.





Terrible wolves could reach 1, 5 meters long and weighed between 40-to 70 kg. Paleontologists estimate that the bite of this ancient predator was approximately 1, 3 times stronger than the average modern wolf bite. Terrible Wolves did not survive competition with the less massive, but more nimble rivals - ordinary wolf and man, as needed more production. The gradual disappearance of large mammals, constitute the basic diet of prehistoric dire wolf, led to the extinction of this species.

via factroom.ru