Think of The Attributes of a Wolf: This is especially true if you're naming a real-life animal or a memorable fictional ...

Here's a look at what we know about the prehistoric species: Where the dire wolves roamed 13,000 years ago. Along with saber-toothed cats and enormous short-faced bears, dire wolves were once ...

Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

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.

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, Chief Science Officer of Colossal Biosciences is a champion of animal bioscience, but she’s been met with ...

Dire Wolves Have Just Been Brought Back From Extinction — and No This Isn’t Some ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy. In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the ...

What we’re really looking at, it seems, are gray wolves modified to be dire wolves of George R.R. Martin’s books rather than living, breathing replicas of the actual prehistoric carnivores ...

The prehistoric dogs eventually evolved into larger sizes and independently evolved some traits similar to those of gray wolves, leading to the origin of dire wolves around 230,000 years ago. 4th ...

Scientists at Colossal are breeding dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. ... aims to use CRISPR gene-editing technology to not only bring back prehistoric creatures, ...

Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living ...