Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at a Dallas-based biotech firm say they are bringing back the dire wolf from extinction, a species popularized by the ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden's bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous by Game of Thrones have doubled in size in mere months. Romulus, Remus, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at a Dallas-based biotech firm recently announced they have brought back the to life the dire wolf, a species ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A massive breakthrough was announced this week by the ...

In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited genes ...

The first major frontier of “de-extinction” has just been crossed. Earlier today, the company Colossal Biosciences reported that its scientists have successfully brought back a version of the dire ...

Colossal Biosciences' feat of genetic engineering has people talking, but not every scientist is on board with its claim of having brought back the dire wolf. Reading time 8 minutes The single ...

Scientists at a Dallas-based biotech firm say they are bringing back the dire wolf from extinction, a species popularized by the fantasy TV show "Game of Thrones." Colossal Biosciences, the world's ...

Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of prehistoric canines. Yet, even the largest dire wolf would pale in comparison to ...