After the 'Game of Thrones' craze, the dire wolves are back, this time for real. The Texas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced that their genetic engineering project led to the birth of three dire wolf pups.

The scientists who revived dire wolves are clearly aware of the Game of Thrones connection, so why didn't they name them Ghost or Nymeria or something? Turns out there's an answer:

A biotech company claims to have brought back the dire wolf, made famous by Game of Thrones, using advanced genetic engineering on gray wolves, but experts argue the result is more a modified lookalike than a true resurrection of the Ice Age predator.

A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric predators.

Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in the first place.

Dire wolves have been extinct for more than 10,000 years. But now, three of them are roaming around somewhere in the U.S. Well, sort

No, dire wolves are not “back.” But pretending they can be brought back is a good excuse to gut regulations that protect real endangered species.

While the internet fawns over genetically engineered wolves, real species are dying out US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least that’s what the company would like you to believe.

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims