In their attempt to recover the dire wolf, Colossal researchers contacted museums and laboratories with dire wolf specimens and got access to a tooth thought to be about 13,000 years old, found in ...

One thing that’s been overshadowed by the dire wolf hubbub is Colossal’s work with endangered red wolves (Canis rufus). In the 1970s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recognized that these ...

PUBLIC WATER. ALL RIGHT. HOW ABOUT THIS? DIRE WOLVES HAVE BEEN EXTINCT FOR MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS, BUT NOW THREE OF THEM ARE ROAMING AROUND SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. WELL, SORT OF. SO THESE YOUNG DIRE ...

Researchers extracted genetic material from two dire wolf fossils—a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull—and edited the genome of a gray wolf, their closest living relative.

But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a mix of South American canids (the family of mammals such as wolfs and dogs) and a ...

The dire wolf is a canine species that has been extinct for around 10,000 years, having lived up to 250,000 years ago. Living in the Americas, they are thought to have "died out as their prey did ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. after going extinct around 13,000 years ago.

The dire wolf puppies, christened Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, are flourishing within a sprawling, 2,000-acre private reserve meticulously designed to cater to their every need, providing ample ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Colossal extracted and sequenced DNA from a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old dire wolf inner ear bone from Idaho and found that modern grey wolves share 99.5% of ...

In addition to modifying 14 genes to produce the trio of gray wolf pups meant to resemble the ancient dire wolf, the company recently also cloned four red wolves, a critically endangered canine.