The reality behind the fantasy

 Giant wolves around the world.

 There has not been a more important canid for humanity than the wolf; this species has been a participant and protagonist of legends and myths since time immemorial, even becoming a crucial part of our history as a species thanks to dog.

But for some time now a very complex and complicated issue has been dealt with, which is the existence of giant wolves in various parts of the world and their identity. Let's analyze some cases, thank you all for reading, I hope you support and without further ado we start.

Dire wolves in Britain 

  These are giant wolf-like canids, which have been sighted for centuries in the British Isles, going into context, wolves were once present in Britain and early Roman and later Saxon chronicle writings that wolves appear to have been extraordinarily numerous on the island, but the species was exterminated from the British Isles through a combination of deforestation and active hunting through reward systems for each killed wolf, becoming extinct in the 16th century.

But, for a long time there have been stories of enormous wolves, described as animals similar in size to a medium-sized horse, Described as wild animals that usually attack humans, it may be a simple legend but, they have been talked about in recent times, The closest proof to reality is this photograph, although I could not find it complete, it comes from a reliable source, and in the original source it looked like the size of a cow.,

But is this possible? Well, scientifically speaking, yes it is, it is known that unlike other British animals, The wolves were not affected by the dwarfism of the islands; on the contrary, certain skeletal remains indicate that they may have grown as large as the Arctic wolves, and remembering well, these are said to have disappeared during the reign of Henry VII, although there are later Scottish stories, and even, One account exists of one being seen as late as 1888, so if a population in Britain's wolves had survived later, It would not be surprising that if they existed longer they would have possibly reached larger sizes.

The photo is from 2012 and it was not until 2019 that bears and wolves were reintroduced to British lands.

Greenland Amarok

   The Amarok is an Inuit legend that tells of the existence of a large dog with supernatural powers. who would live near the Northern territories, although the term changes depending on the region, This being is described as having a morphology similar to a huge ghostly white wolf with red eyes, although in other regions, it is not a specific creature and is used to describe any type of wolf.

For many centuries he has been revered in Inuit mythology, and due to the powers attributed to him, considering him as a demonic beingBut why are we talking about this? Well, you will be surprised to know that there is something more to this.

Zoologists traditionally dismissed such tales as Inuit folklore and treated them as pure legends, It wasn't until a supposed amarok was shot during the 19th century and discovered to be a truly immense pure white wolf, The animal was skinned and its magnificent skin was later sent to the Copenhagen Museum in Denmark, where it is said to be kept.

In my opinion, it is possible that this gigantic creature was nothing more than a specimen of the controversial sub-species of the Greenland wolf,(canis lupus Orión), which is very similar to the Arctic wolf in genetics and morphology, so it is possible that this creature was one of these with a size alteration, too bad, I couldn't find photos of the skin.

Russian giant wolf

   For centuries, the slavic peoples native to Russia, the Urals and Siberia, have spoken in their legends about enormous man-eating wolves, who wander those desolate snowy lands, but these might not just be simple legends, Since there have been several truthful reports of possible dire wolves living in the Eurasian nation and as an example in 2020, in the district of Blagoveshchensky, specifically in the town of alexandrovka, located in the Altai Massif, In this place, a wolf the size of a lion was killed, which according to residents had been killing cows, horses and sheep, here we have a photo of the animal:

In the same way, some paleontological finds have been made, such as a head of a steppe wolf, 32,000 years old, we will not mention sizes because the press exaggerates and here we are impartial, but what is certain is that this head found on the banks of the Tirekhtyak River in the region of Yakutia in Siberia has been a key piece to better understand the morphology and evolution of the steppe wolf, which is known to be able to reach larger and more massive sizes than other gray wolves.

Dire wolves in North America.

 we end with the supposed sightings of big wolves in North America, from Canada to the American West the stories of big wolves told by Native Americans and European settlers were quite popular in past centuries, pero claramente, There are clear and coherent explanations for this today.

For the most part, several of these reports and sightings have turned out to be larger than normal specimens, but knowing that in America there are sub-species such as the Mackenzie wolf,(canis lupus occidentalis), that reach sizes that are too large, it is not surprising that individuals of even larger sizes can be found, due to specific food and environments.

 Furthermore, if sub-species as large as the kenai wolf (canis lupus alces) and the Bernard wolf (canis lupus Bernardi) could live until recent times It is not unreasonable to think of small populations of enormous wolves living in the American territory in a hidden way and as shown, sightings of this type do not stop Continuing until today, there are different videos about it, I will leave one of them in the videos section.

  Anyway, the existence of giant wolves has been a topic of controversial debate and something that various writers have used for their works, let's remember that usually our The mind is carried away by what it does not understand and often, mutated animals or island variants lead to the creation of legends and myths around these mysterious creatures.

[Reading links]

https://hmong.es/wiki/Wolves_in_Great_Britain

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(mitolog%C3%ADa)

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_orion

https://www.google.com/amp/s/archivo.cazavision.com/gran-breta%25C3%25B1a-reintroduce-osos-lobos%3famp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/11167878/gigantic-wolf-terrorises-russian-village/amp/

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_occidentalis#:~:text=El%20lobo%20del%20Mackenzie%20(Canis,de%20donde%20recibi%C3%B3%20el%20nombre.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_alces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard's_wolf

http://www.cosmosmith.com/steppe_wolf.asp