According to USA TODAY, the fully extinct canines were created using DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull. Advertisement The dire wolves live in a fenced-in nature preserve in ...

What is a dire wolf? It's likely you've heard of a dire wolf if you're a fan of the HBO hit show "Game of Thrones," or of George R.R. Martin's series of fantasy novels.

They are fed a diet of deer, horse meat, beef and puppy chow having been weaned at eight weeks from their dog mothers. They are 99 per cent genetically identical to gray wolves; among the tiny ...

On Tuesday, Colossal revealed that two genetically identical male "dire wolf" puppies named Romulus and Remus were born on Oct. 1 last year, with their sister Khaleesi following a few months later ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

The startup Colossal Biosciences claims to have revived the dire wolf, a canine species that went extinct more than 12,000 years ago. Scientists say it's actually not the real dire wolf.

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal CEO Ben Lamm.

Colossal scientists extracted ancient DNA from two dire wolf fossils: a tooth from Sheridan Pit, Ohio, about 13,000 years old, and an inner-ear bone from American Falls, Idaho, roughly 72,000 ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out.Now ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in Wyandot County, adjacent to Crawford County, was one of two pieces of dire wolf ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies," Lamm said. "It was once said, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is ...

The researchers studied a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth unearthed in Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull fragment found in Idaho, both part of natural history museum collections.