If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

In June 2024, scientists from the MKAmmosov North-Eastern Federal University announced the astonishing discovery of a Pleistocene wolf in the Republic of Sakha, a region renowned for its ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...

A biotechnology company's recent announcement that it had revived a wolf species that went extinct 10,000 years ago is both ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric wolf's closest living relative. Six-month-olds Romulus and Remus, and their two-month-old sister Khaleesi are being raised at an undisclosed U.S ...

cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living relative, the company announced Monday. The result is essentially a hybrid ...

But a 2021 study of dire wolf DNA found that dire wolves emerged from a canid lineage that was closer to African jackals around 5 million years ago. The prehistoric dogs eventually evolved into ...