The Dire Wolf, once a mythical figure thanks to Game of Thrones, is experiencing a major revival, thanks to Colossal ...

The dire wolf has been brought back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, a U.S. biotech start-up has announced. On Monday, Colossal Biosciences, based in Texas, said its researchers had ...

Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a factor in the extinction of dire wolves. Climate change and possibly ...

Colossal's team used pieces of the genetic code they uncovered in ancient dire wolf DNA samples to alter the genome of a common gray wolf to resemble that of its long-extinct cousin. The resulting ...

Colossal scientists learned about specific traits that dire wolves possessed by examining ancient DNA from fossils. The researchers studied a 13,000 year-old dire wolf tooth unearthed in Ohio and ...

Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences has announced the successful de-extinction of the dire wolf, a prehistoric predator that vanished some 12,500 years ago. The company revealed that ...