From Ottawa, at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Many species of large mammals went extinct when the last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. But Canis lupus, the gray wolf, survived that wrenching period unscathed—or so scientists thought. New genetic analyses of the remains of gray wolves found in Alaska indicate, however, that a distinct subspecies of C.
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