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The dire wolf is a now extinct species that lived in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch. It was larger than the gray wolf, and weighing 110 to 174 pounds. The dire wolf became extinct about 10,000 years ago. It is theorized that it was caused by the extinction of large herbivores, its prey. Thousands of dire wolf fossils have been found at the Rancho La Brea tar pits in California. This is where the dire wolf at Kingman Museum came from. It was donated to the Museum in 1915 by Charles E. Kolb. Reuben Rector, an artist and technician at Kingman Museum, mounted the skeleton in such a way that it has no visible means of support. The dire wolf is still on display at Kingman Museum on the main level, alongside a skeleton of a saber-tooth tiger, also from the La Brea tar pits.
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Dire Wolf, canis dirus|
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