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

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 ...

Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

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 ...

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 ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately ...

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

A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all with ...

For its dire wolf project, Colossal began with the aforementioned 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from Idaho.

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences said Monday that it used gene editing to create “de-extinct animals” in the form of three pups with the light-colored fur and musculature of a dire wolf ...

The dire wolf, officially named in 1858, is one of many animals of the Pleistocene era, or the ice age. The dire wolf averaged about five feet long and 150 pounds.