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 ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, ... “Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and ...

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 ...

Researchers believe the dire wolf lineage split from the one leading to gray wolves — which did not go extinct — about 5.5 million years ago and remained isolated despite overlapping territory ...

The dire wolf—dire is from the Latin word for “terrible,” a reference to their presume ferocity—once roamed America from South America to Canada and had been extinct since around 10,000 B ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas ...

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.