Rankings / Prehistoric / Land / Middleweight / Dire Wolf
Prehistoric · PleistoceneLandMiddleweight
Dire Wolf
Aenocyon dirus · North and South America
Record
0–0
Win rate
–
Fight rating
1,500
Fighter stats
Estimates from fossils, for adults- Lived
- About 250,000 to 13,000 years ago
- Weight
- ~130–150 lb
- Size
- ~5 ft long
- Top speed
- Unknown
- Weapons
- Large teeth, strong bite
- Diet
- Carnivore: horses, bison, ground sloths
- Lifespan
- Unknown
Power-ups
- Bigger and heavier than a gray wolf
- Hunted in packs
- Strong, bone-cracking teeth
Weak spots
- Shorter legs than gray wolves
- Not a close relative of gray wolves
Fight record
- ?vs. American BisonOpen plains · 1 vote0%
- ?3 of them vs. Smilodon (Saber-Toothed Cat)Open plains · 0 votesNo votes yet
- ?vs. 3 VelociraptorsOpen plains · 0 votesNo votes yet
Bars show the share of votes for the dire wolf. A fight counts toward the record once it has 10+ votes.
In the wild
More than 4,000 dire wolves have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, the most of any mammal there.
Source: nhm.orgA 2021 genome study found dire wolves split from other living canids ~5.7 million years ago and never interbred with gray wolves, moving them to the genus Aenocyon.
Source: sci.news