The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences ...

This week another curious bit of science came in the crosshairs of pop culture as biotech company Colossal Biosciences claimed to have “resurrected” the dire wolf. The long-extinct carnivorous mammal, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a fenced U.S. preserve, a pair of heavy‑boned canids now stalk and play that, until recently, existed only in tar pits and ...

A one-month-old dire wolf pup. (Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences) Researchers from a private biosciences company called Colossal say they’ve extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old fossil to bring the ...

Dire wolves were fearsome predators that prowled around during the Late Pleistocene, between roughly 10,000 and 250,000 years ago. These carnivorous canids (Aenocyon dirus) were specialized hunters, ...

The skull of a dire wolf, an Ice Age apex predator that once roamed the Americas more than 10,000 years ago, is surfacing on the auction block. The specimen is part of Heritage Auctions’s Nature and ...