Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ This is not a Game of Thrones fan fiction episode. Dire wolves were real! And thousands of them died in the same spot in California. Their remains have taught us volumes about how they lived, hunted, died and way more about any animal’s sex life than you’d ever want to know. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie Fichtner, Aldo Espinosa Zúñiga, Anthony Callaghan, Marcus Lejon, Anel Salas, Robert Arévalo, Robert Hill, Kelby Reid, Todd Dittman, Betsy Radley, Svetlana Pylaeva, Colin Sylvester, Philip Slingerland, John Vanek, Jose Garcia, Noah offitzer, Eric Vonk, Tony Wamsley, Henrik Peteri, Jonathan Wright, Wilco Verweij, Jon Monteiro, James Bording, Brad Nicholls, Miles Chaston, Michael McClellan, Elysha Nygård, Jeff Graham, Maria Humphrey, Nathan Paskett, Connor Jensen, Sapjes, Daisuke Goto, Hubert Rady, Yuntao Zhou, Gregory Kintz, Tyson Cleary, Chandler Bass, Maly Lor, Joao Ascensao, Tsee Lee, Sarah Fritts, Ruben Winter, Ron Harvey Jr, Joshua Mitchell, Johnny Li, Jacob Gerke, Brandon Burke, Alex Yan If you d like to support the channel, head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314984082_Posttraumatic_chronic_osteomyeltis_in_Stegosaurus_dermal_spikes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215002499 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1099-1212%28200011/12%2910%3A6%3C447%3A%3AAID-OA532%3E3.0.CO%3B2-W https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70046371 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018203007739 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5999 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1999.tb00227.x http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1844/20161736 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618209002419 http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4191 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4524203 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4524553 https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00043.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeb.12340 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282253545_Dental_Microwear_Textures_of_Carnivorans_from_the_La_Brea_Tar_Pits_California_and_Potential_Extinction_Implications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0131 https://nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/lacm-42.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01108.x https://www.jstor.org/stable/4096974 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18957359