A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves. Dire wolves, with reddish ...

announced earlier this month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell ... it had cloned four red wolf pups from three living adult ...

The Dallas-based biotech firm has reveled in compliments and been hit with criticism over the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf. And there's been a lot of questions, too. The Colossal team posted a ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the April 12 episode of "Velshi." It's been over 10,000 years since a dire wolf has roamed the Earth. But now, according to scientists for a genetics company called ...

In case you haven’t already read a dozen stories about this, here are some of the most salient details: Scientists at Colossal retrieved DNA from an approximately 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth ...

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 ...

This week, a biotechnology company claimed to have brought back the long-extinct dire wolf using new gene editing technology, and the breakthrough has Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out.

An animal that Colossal Biosciences (and for that matter the cover of Time magazine) declared to be a dire wolf is now a snow-white puppy with huge feet and olive eyes—and it’s howling.

(CBS NEWS) - 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 it died off. Colossal Biosciences ...