It’s no surprise that man’s best friend has several features in the myths and folklore that lace through history. We see gods of revenance, creatures that embody both loyalty and rage, and the many ...

Or, maybe, it's just a grey wolf with a few tweaks. American biotech company Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead ...

Colossal Biosciences has successfully bred three dire wolf pups, named Remus, Romulus, and Khaleesi, using ancient DNA, cloning, and gene-editing technology. This groundbreaking achievement marks ...

Scientists have shocked the world by bringing back the extinct dire wolf species which disappeared from our planet more than 10,000 years ago, but the remarkable genetic engineering company behind ...

The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name ...

For the two precocious pups are no ordinary canines. Scientists say they have brought back the dire wolf, a long-extinct species, with jaws so large and powerful they once hunted bison and even ...

"Colossal compared the genomes of the dire wolf and the gray wolf, and from about 19,000 genes, they determined that 20 changes in 14 genes gave them a dire wolf," Rawlence said.

However, they worked together and hunted in groups, much like modern wolf packs. While they weren’t built for long-distance running due to their size, they could move quickly in short bursts. Their ...

A global company headquartered in Dallas says it has been able to successfully "de-extinct" the dire wolf using DNA from bone fragments unearthed in the United States. The dire wolf, larger with ...

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences in Texas resurrected dire wolves, extinct for 10,000 years, using ancient DNA. The revived pups, Romulus and Remus, differentiate from gray wolves by size and ...

While Romulus and Remus are two six-months old wolf pups, Khalessi is a 2-month old female pup. If we talk about their appearance, Dire Wolves are large-sized and have a dense coat of fur.

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...