Colossal Biosciences shared a progress update on the world's first new dire wolves — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — since the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists trying to bring back dire wolves 01:24. For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE, ...

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.

The dire wolf pups live on an ecological preserve over 2,000 acres in size, where they are tended to by a 10-member full-time care staff and monitored using cameras, security personnel and drones.

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.

Dire wolf DNA that has been extracted from Pleistocene fossil material: a recent peer-reviewed paper analyzed the fragmentary nuclear genome of dire wolves compared to living canids (see Perri et ...

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.