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Shift in diet allowed gray wolves to survive ice-age mass extinction

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Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the end of the last ice age. A new study analysing teeth and bones shows that the wolves may have survived by adapting their diet over thousands of years — from a primary reliance on horses during the Pleistocene, to caribou and moose today.

Source: ScienceDaily.com