The three dire wolves birthed by Colossal Biosciences are old enough to hang out together now, essentially becoming a pack.

In addition to the dire wolf skull, a mosasaur skull belonging to the extinct apex predator lizard Tylosaurus proriger is ...

To recreate the dire wolf’s defining features—including its large frame, powerful build, and unique coat—researchers edited gray wolf cells with precise genetic changes.

The paper details how the researchers spent more than a year to "decode the dire wolf’s evolutionary history," Colossal said in a statement. "We generated high-quality ancient genomes from dire ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

Colossal Biosciences' chief scientist has clarified that its "dire wolves" are just genetically modified gray wolves following a backlash to the "de-extinction" label it put on them.

Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, that have doubled in size over the past 6 months ...

Dire Wolves Have Just Been Brought Back From Extinction — and No This Isn’t Some ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the ...

Dire wolves thrived in the Americas for more than 200,000 years, adeptly filling so many ecological niches that their remains have been found from Alaska to Peru.

At L.A.’s famed La Brea Tar Pits, fossil remains from more than 3,600 dire wolves have been discovered and the adjacent museum devotes an entire wall to displaying around 400 dire wolf skulls.

Dire Wolves Don’t Come With A Manual Captive-bred animals, even those of existing species, face immense hurdles when reintroduced into the wild.

First, I’m using “dire wolves” in quotes because scientists are still quibbling about whether we can really say Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences actually brought back the dire wolf. Most ...