Credit: Colossal/Cover Images The world’s first so-called “de-extincted” dire wolf pack has come together to play for the ...

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

An auction offers collectors an opportunity to own a partial skull of a dire wolf dating back to the Pleistocene era ...

The de-extinction process begins with ancient DNA. In the case of the dire wolf project, Colossal scientists were working from two fossils, a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull.

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

But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a mix of South American canids (the family of mammals such as wolfs and dogs) and a ...

According to Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal Bioscience, the company that created dire wolves, the animals were the product of interbreeding between two different wolf lineages ...

Using this process, they claim responsibility for bringing back the dire wolf, a species extinct for 10,000 years, known by many for its representation in the “Game of Thrones” series. Today, three ...

Unlike the prehistoric dire wolf, these new creatures will not roam the outdoors nor hunt for prey. They will live on a 2,000-acre preserve enclosed by a 10-foot-tall, zoo-graded fence.

De-extincted' 'Dire Wolf' Pack Play Together For First Time. The world’s first so-called “de-extincted” ‘dire wolf’ pack has ...

That same blood cloning process which resulted in the Colossal dire wolves has wider applications for other threatened animals, like the critically endangered red wolf. First, we need a little help ...