Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again. A high-profile de‑extinction company says it has produced pups modeled on ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. Colossal ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Monday, the biotechnology company ...

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With ...

It has been over 12,000 years since the last dire wolves vanished from the Earth. But the apex predators, made famous by Game of Thrones, are once again growing their pack. Last year, Colossal ...

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 ...

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than just "Game of Thrones" fans took notice. Researchers at the ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited genes ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show? By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...