"Game of Thrones" may have excited viewers with tales of dragons and fictional heroes and heroines, but one aspect of the show was real, according to a new study: dire wolves.

Scientists claim to have resurrected dire wolves, an extinct species popularized by Game of Thrones, after more than 10,000 years, though some are skeptical of the exact possibility. Three dire ...

Scientists in Dallas, Texas, have used gene editing to create animals with some DNA from the extinct dire wolf. The team at ...

Dire Wolves Have Just Been Brought Back From Extinction — and No This Isn’t Some ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the ...

Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm teased the release during a panel at SXSW London alongside Sophie Turner, who played Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, the show that brought dire wolves into the ...

Scientists at a Dallas-based biotech firm recently announced they have brought back the to life the dire wolf, a species popularized by the fantasy TV show "Game of Thrones." The company recently ...

The dire wolf pups have been raised on a diet of beef, deer, horse meat and a specially formulated dried pet food. The wolves are around 20 to 25 per cent bigger than their closest living relative ...

The once-extinct dire wolf species has been brought back to life after 10,000 years, and George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” lore deserves some of the credit.

"The image we get from Game of Thrones of dire wolves roaming around freezing, snow-covered, northern lands couldn't be more wrong," Mitchell said.

“Game of Thrones” has given demand a bump, but not in a way Schwarz likes. The fiction-motivated customers are looking for their Ghost or Nymeria, she said.

The dire wolf, the mystical creature that menacingly roamed the “Game of Thrones” universe, has an equally enthralling biological backstory. The fierce creature, long believed to have b… ...

Jackson — who is an investor in the biotechnology company — loaned Colossal the official touring 330-pound Iron Throne prop that was used in promotions for the Game of Thrones series.