It’s still a dog. It just has better PR. The real dire wolf, by the way, was never just a big gray wolf. A 2021 genetic study confirmed that dire wolves weren’t even close relatives.

Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of "dire wolf" pups, claiming a rebirth of the extinct species. However, the company's chief scientist clarified that these pups are actually gray wolves ...

The new findings clarify relationships among members of the dog family, placing dire wolves (Canis dirus) in a New World lineage that split from the gray wolf's ancestors some 5.5 million years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colossal chose to genetically engineer a designer wolf-dog straight out of Game of Thrones, cherry-picking some traits that they thought might resemble a dire wolf such as larger size. But they ...

But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a mix of South American canids (the family of mammals such as wolfs and dogs ...

The dire wolf, scientific name Aenocyon dirus, is placed alongside other wolves (and the dog), coyotes and jackals in the canine family. However, there is still debate about exactly where it fits ...

In total, they made just 20 changes to 14 genes; no actual dire wolf DNA was spliced into the gray wolf DNA. Then they took the modified gray wolf DNA, inserted it into dog ova that had the dog ...

A genetically modified wolf juvenile, one of three successfully ... which were implanted into surrogate domestic dogs. The pups that were born exhibit some traits thought to be characteristic of dire ...

"This is just a big dog with a few genes inserted from a once extinct wolf," Pimm told ABC News. "Incidentally, a dire wolf is not really closely related to a regular wolf." He went on ...

to express dire wolf traits. Surrogate dog mothers successfully gave birth to fertilized dire wolf eggs and now Colossal has three dire wolf puppies living on the company's expansive preserve.