Temperatures were cold. Large glaciers covered the landscape. Mastodons, wooly mammoths and dire wolves roamed freely. That was Indiana during the Pleistocene period, which lasted from two million to ...

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

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

Ancient DNA Extraction and Genome Reconstruction The process began with extracting genetic material from two dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth from Sheridan Pit, Ohio, and a 72,000-year ...

The Dire Wolf, once a mythical figure thanks to Game of Thrones, is experiencing a major revival, thanks to Colossal Biosciences, the ambitious biotech company working on de-extincting species ...

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 ...

One of de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences' "dire wolf" pups at three months. Photo / Colossal When a snow-white wolf appeared on a recent cover of Time magazine, billed as the resurrection ...

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 ...

Genetically modifying gray wolves to resemble the extinct dire wolf may be an impressive scientific feat, but it’s no substitute for protecting living species that are currently at risk.

A Texas-based bioengineering company sparked headlines across the world earlier this month when it announced it had done the seemingly impossible: brought a long-extinct species, the dire wolf ...

Experts say it’s more complicated than that. “Did they bring back the dire wolf?” Robert Feranec, director of research and collections and curator of ice age animals at the New York State ...