Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for ...

In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the world's first de-extinct animal.

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

Many dire wolf remains have been found in the La Brea tar pits, for example, but the tar pit damages the DNA, said Beth Shapiro, Colossal's chief science officer. Shapiro and the researchers at ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. But, in early April, it was “resurrected” by Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetic engineering company that performed the supposed rebirth of ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

In its effort to re-create the animal, Colossal says, it extracted DNA information from dire wolf bones and used gene editing to introduce some of those elements into cells from gray wolves. It then ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum’s La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than just "Game of Thrones" fans took notice. Researchers at the ...