By Kevin E. Noonan — When I awoke, the dire wolf Six hundred pounds of sin Was grinning at my window All I said was, “Come on in” But don’t murder me, I beg of you Don’t murder me, please, don’t murder me “Dire Wolf,” Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead The dire wolf (Canis dirus), prototype of the various wolves that were important members of the House Stark family of characters in Game of Thrones, was found uniquely in North America until its extinction in the late Pleistocene (~13,000 years ago). The relationship between this species and the indigenous gray wolf…
