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The Dire Wolf Project, a project to breed German Shepherds to resemble dire wolves. It started in 1988 and focuses first on health and temperament. They are enormous, scary, shaggy and, by all accounts, terribly sweet.

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The long extinct Dire Wolf (Canis Dirus, "fearsome dog") is the largest species of the genus Canis known to have existed.

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1. There was a wolf subspecies, Canis Lupus Arces, larger than the dire wolf were up until the early 1900s, when it was driven to extinction. Estimates of the largest recorded individual wolf of this breed say 4.5ft at the shoulder and were said to have been 7 feet long not including the tail.

2. The Dire Wolf was a relative of modern wolves and a contemporary of the Sabertooth Tiger. Dire Wolf fossils show signs that it was adapted to take down larger and more powerful prey than modern wolves.

3. The largest known species of canines is known as the "Dire Wolf", and it thrived in the Americas when Megafauna roamed the area.

4. American lion had no natural enemies. Major competitors for food were saber-toothed cat, dire wolf and giant short-faced bear.

5. Saber-toothed tiger didn"t have natural enemies, but it had to compete for food with American lion, dire wolf, lynx and puma.

6. In 1880s Alaska there were wolves larger than the Dire Wolf. The Kenai Peninsula Wolf measured 4.5ft tall(shoulder),7ft long(excluding the tail), with an estimated max weight of 200-250 pounds.

7. Dire wolves are the most commonly found wolf species in the La Brea tar pit excavation

8. Dire Wolves actually existed. They're an extinct species of wolf from North America.