Decades after the nuclear disaster, Chernobyl’s wolves continue to survive—and even thrive—inside the exclusion zone.

Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire ...

The disaster of Chernobyl is one of the worst disasters in nuclear power ever, and also a major and pivotal moment in human history. As awful as it was though, there just might be something good that ...

Yet last week, Time proclaimed their second coming with a white wolf on its cover. An illustration shows what a North American habitat with ancient dire wolves and Colombian mammoths might have ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world ... equating it to, like, Chernobyl," Lamm said. "Didn't you see what happened ...

Romulus and Remus nod to the legendary founders of Rome, raised by a wolf, while Khaleesi evokes the dire wolves of Game of Thrones. It’s a resurrection story made for the headlines, but beneath ...

The combination of dire wolf and Game of Thrones is an iconic imagery of the show. Based on the novels of George R.R. Martin, the show features the gripping fight for power amongst an array of ...

Colossal Biosciences has successfully bred three dire wolf pups, named Remus, Romulus, and Khaleesi, using ancient DNA, cloning, and gene-editing technology. This groundbreaking achievement marks ...

The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name ...

“It is not a dire wolf; it is a gray wolf clone with some mutations that make it superficially resemble a dire wolf.” Colossal says it extracted dire wolf DNA from two fossils — a roughly ...