Super-wolf

See Ed Yong's post on the Ice Age super-wolves.

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Reading about Super-Wolves and other uber carnivores, like the Giant Short-Faced Bear - up to 6' tall at the shoulder - who all seemed to have lived in North America - makes me wonder if that's what delayed human habitation of that continent for so long, and why South America seems to have been populated first?