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Specialized, bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
06-21-2007 · EurekAlert!The ancient gray wolves that once roamed the icy expanses of Alaska represented a specialized form that apparently died out along with other big animals at the end of the Pleistocene, many thousands of years ago, researchers report online on June 21st in the journal Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.
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