Or, maybe, it's just a grey wolf with a few tweaks. American biotech company Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead ...

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 ...

Scientists have shocked the world by bringing back the extinct dire wolf species which disappeared from our planet more than 10,000 years ago, but the remarkable genetic engineering company behind ...

De-Extinction Dire Wolf: A United States-based bioscience company on Monday claimed that it had revived an extinct species of animal, the dire wolf, made famous by the Game of Thrones TV series.

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week ...

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 ...

"Colossal compared the genomes of the dire wolf and the gray wolf, and from about 19,000 genes, they determined that 20 changes in 14 genes gave them a dire wolf," Rawlence said.

However, they worked together and hunted in groups, much like modern wolf packs. While they weren’t built for long-distance running due to their size, they could move quickly in short bursts. Their ...

A global company headquartered in Dallas says it has been able to successfully "de-extinct" the dire wolf using DNA from bone fragments unearthed in the United States. The dire wolf, larger with ...

The extinct Dire wolf (Canis dirus) is the most common species of wolf found in the asphalt at Rancho La Brea. In this diorama, a complete Dire wolf skeleton is shown with an artist’s conception of ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said in a statement. “It was once said, ‘any sufficiently ...