Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...

But despite their size, fossils show that the dire wolf could still move well through different environments, Colossal Biosciences said. It could hunt big animals and live alongside other species.

The dire-wolf genomes allowed Dr. Shapiro and her colleagues ... The huge animals that dire wolves specialized in hunting are either extinct or surviving in small populations.

The Dallas-based startup announced Monday the birth of three dire wolves, an extinct species of wolf popularized by ... adaptations for cold weather hunting. “Taking a 13,000-year-old tooth ...

"They're starting to exhibit hunting-like behaviors," said Lamm. "So they're starting to act more and more wolf-like by the minute." Though it may be beneficial for the dire wolves to learn to ...

Hunting and trapping almost drove them to extinction in the lower 48 states by the mid-20th century. Ken Angielczyk, curator of fossil mammals, compares a dire wolf skull, left, and a gray wolf ...

The dire wolf is about 25% larger than the gray wolf and was meant to hunt larger prey that existed during the Ice Age. James said there are currently no plans to introduce the dire wolf into the ...

Unlike the prehistoric dire wolf, these new creatures will not roam the outdoors nor hunt for prey. They will live on a 2,000-acre preserve enclosed by a 10-foot-tall, zoo-graded fence.

The prehistoric predators evolved to hunt large-bodied prey species ... But a 2021 study of dire wolf DNA found that dire wolves emerged from a canid lineage that was closer to African jackals ...

In fact, it has been hypothesized that the dire wolf went extinct during the late Pleistocene extinctions because it specialized in hunting large prey that also went extinct. So, it's unclear ...