They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when they roamed in packs across what would later become the Americas. Standing ...

Colossal Biosciences said the wolf pups range in age from three to six months old and have long white hair and muscular jaws.

Dire wolves, the legendary beasts beside House Stark in Game of Thrones, were not mythical inventions but echoes of an ancient reality. Known as Canis dirus, these powerful predators once roamed the ...