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.

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 ...

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 ...

Saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and coyotes had different hunting patterns according to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a ...

Numerous dire wolf fossils have been found at the Rancho La Brea tar pits site in Los Angeles. Previous research could not resolve their evolutionary origin, causing speculation that jackals may be ...

Ganzert, chief executive of the American Humane Society, gushed on Colossal’s website. The dire wolf genome likely differs from that of the gray wolf in millions or tens of millions of ways.

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 ...