Late Pleistocene
Then he had accidentally stepped foot on the hunting grounds which belonged to a tribe of dire wolves.
Learning to Run, Chapter 6, Werewolf Training... Again...
Walker listened to dire-wolf speak and he had to admit that the high-alpha did look quite intimidating. steel looked at the cub in his arms and smiled at his curiosity. "we hope to find any survivors and bring them back here," he explained.
Gaia and Malum: Chapter 2
She yelled as she feared for her friends safety, being distracted serafina looked back at crimson before looking back as she was swatted into a tree as one of the dire wolfs swiped at her, her hp dropping to down below half crimson growled as she shot the
Daemon - Chapter 16 (Tanjarr)
I kept my travel hood of my new dire wolf cloak up as we walked through the village, so as not to attract the wrong kind of attention.
Arvians - Grey & The First Hunt
Thick, padded tracks, easily the size of a dire wolf or an iron boar circled the ground seemingly at random, as if the predator had paced around its kill, or perhaps played with it before it died. the thought made grey wince in sympathy.
Michael and Amanda, Chapter 4
Every known species of placental, marsupial and monotreme mammal was genetically altered into a human/animal hybrid, known as humanimals, even extinct animals, such as thylacines, smilodons, dinofelises, dire wolves, etc., were brought back and altered.
Wolfhair: Verity
The avian held his own, though he wasn't as muscular as the dire wolf. darius looked confounded. -- i thought you were an archer, he snickered glumly. the adamant bird gazed coldly. -- i am.
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 3, On the Trail of Legends" - Chapter 2
Char'ena is certainly too big to be even one of the so-called 'dire' wolves from prehistoric times. her eyes--can't seem to get them out of my head. they're not normal wolf eyes, that's for sure, and i can't shake the feeling that i've seen them before.
Eudaemon III: Rebirth / Act IV, Part 7
Their behavior appears to revolve around traditional honor beliefs and a monarchy system involving rulership through power and domination; they were a natural enemy of arctic dire wolves, who possessed similar qualities and have been recorded to have clashed
Wolfhair: Hero
Only the ram owned a cuirass that appeared large enough to fit the dire wolf. he also took the sheep's large belt and empty pouches, just in case.