Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and ...

For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal de-extinction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it ...

A one-month-old dire wolf pup. (Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences) Researchers from a private biosciences company called Colossal say they’ve extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old fossil to bring the ...

These genetically-engineered “dire wolves” are now six months old, and are already markedly bigger than gray wolves at their age. Both males are over 90 pounds, and Khaleesi is still visibly smaller ...

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 disappearing ...

Colossal Biosciences has cloned four red wolf pups from living red wolves. The technology could aid conservation efforts in saving the species. Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the ...

If you’ve read this site at all, you’ll know that Colossal Biosciences has pretended that it’s brought an extinct species back to life: the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus), a carnivorous denizen of the ...

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for ...

Researchers say they’ve extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old fossil to bring the dire wolf back to life. Pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf are here. But why? Researchers from a private ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Colossal Biosciences’ cloned “dire wolves” hit a major milestone this week, as the female dire ...