In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the world’s first de-extinct animal. By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Immortalized in ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ...

Cute as a button, but not dire wolves: Colossal Biosciences claims that these animals, Romulus and Remus, represent an extinct species rescued from oblivion. But experts say that's hype. (Colossal ...

When Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences' announced it was bringing back dire wolves from extinction, lots of people wondered if this was fact or fantasy. William Lynn, a research scientist at Clark ...

Dire wolves, you see, very much existed in the prehistoric times, though you might not recognize one from George R.R. Martin's description. Formally known as Aenocyon dirus , these ancient beasts were ...

Science has once again pushed the boundaries of possibility—this time, by reviving a creature that vanished over 10,000 years ago. A team of researchers has successfully brought the dire wolf back ...

A giant beaver skull, right, compared to a modern beaver skull at the State Museum in Albany. A female, left, and male specimen of Labrador ducks at the State Museum in Albany. Only 25 specimens of ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...