The dire wolf is the last race in the modern world to be able to descend.

Department of Archeology, Durham University, Durham, UK

Angela R. Perry

Australian Center for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Kieren J.Mitchell, Graham Gower, Holly Heiniger, and Alexander T.Salis.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Alice Mouton, Colin Shew, Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Robert K.Wayne.

School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Alberto Carmagnini, Mario dos Reis, and Laurent AF Frantz.

Department of Classical Archeology and Egyptian Science, Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Ardern Hulme-Beaman and Keith Dobney

School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

Ardern Hulme-Beaman

Research network Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archeology, Research Laboratory in Archeology and Art History, The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

James Haile, Alexandra Jamieson, Audrey T. Lin, Anna Linderholm and Greger Larson.

Department of Anatomy, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA, USA

Julie Meachen

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Audrey T. Lin

Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

Audrey T. Lin

Center of Excellence in Paleontology & Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA

Blaine W. Schubert

Department of Archeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Carly Amine

Archaeological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Ekaterina E.Antipina

ARAID Foundation, University Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (IUCA) – Aragosaurus Group, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Pere Bower

Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK

Selina Brace

Evolutionary Genomics Department, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christian Carøe, Jose A.Samaniego Castruita, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Matthew J. Collins, Mikkel-Holger S.Sinding, and M.Thomas P.Gilbert.

Applied Paleoscience, Bothell, WA, USA

James C. Chat

Department of Archeology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Keith Dobney

Department of Archeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Keith Dobney

Department of Archeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Keith Dobney

Institute of Evolutionary Sciences – Montpellier, CNRS, University of Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France.

Allow Evin

UPS / CNRS / IRD Laboratory of Evolution and Biodiversity, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

Philippe Gaubert

Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kristofer M.Helgen

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Josh Kapp, Nedda F.Saremi and Beth Shapiro

Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Pavel A. Kosintsev

Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Pavel A. Kosintsev

Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Anna Linderholm

Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Andrew T.Ozga and Anne C.Stone

School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Andrew T.Ozga, Katherine Skerry, and Anne C.Stone

Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Andrew T.Ozga

Department of Archeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Samantha Presslee

Institute of Animal Systems and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Dmitry E.Taranenko

Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA

Mary Thompson

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia

Mikhail V. Sablin

Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Matthew J. Collins

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland

Mikkel-Holger S.

NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway

M.Thomas P.Gilbert

Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Ann Sea Stone

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Beth Shapiro

South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Alan Cooper

Palaeogenomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Laurent AF Frantz