The de-extinct dire wolves created by a biotechnology company are now old enough to breed, according to the firm behind the ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immortalized in Game of Thrones and on the crest of House Stark, the dire wolf is walking the Earth again and even howling after ...

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

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Dire wolves Romulus and Remus next to each other in the snow at five months old. Credit: Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become a reality. Colossal ...

Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated ...