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

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

Visitors to the La Brea Tar Pits are aware of the species' role in the ecosystem of primordial Southern California, thanks to a wall at the museum displaying hundreds of dire wolf skulls extracted ...

By sequencing ancient DNA samples recovered from fossils preserved in tar pits, researchers reconstructed a complete genome of the dire wolf, closely related yet distinctly separate from modern ...

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 ...

The dire wolf is back — at least according to the ... “I visited the La Brea Tar Pits in LA a few decades back, and when I saw their direwolf exhibit, four hundred skulls arrayed on a wall ...

The unique combination of geological, chemical, and environmental factors made Hall’s Cave one of North America’s premier repositories of well-preserved Pleistocene biological material, rivaling the ...

They're the modern reincarnations, at least in silhouette, of the dire wolf or Canis dirus ... Fossils unearthed from tar pits -- a 13,000-year-old tooth, a 72,000-year-old Unlock 30+ premium stories ...

Ideas that look attractive even though many predecessors have failed' are called ' tar pit ideas ' because their characteristics resemble a tar pond. Y Combinator, an accelerator that invests in ...