They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when ...

Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. after going extinct around 13,000 years ago.

From certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black ... day wolves. They’re dire wolf pups ...

A Dallas-based company claims to have brought back wolves that last roamed the Earth more than 12,500 years ago and became widely known due to the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones." Colossal ...

The Colossal team thus engineered two other genes that shut down black and red pigmentation, leading to the dire wolf’s characteristic light color without causing any harm in the edited gray ...

The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, from Black Hills, South Dakota, is around 250,000 years old. The animals went extinct around 13,000 years ago, according to researchers at Colossal Biosciences.

Colossal's dire wolves are, in essence ... The nonprofit is working on reviving populations of the black-footed ferret and passenger pigeon, among other animals. But because these genetically ...