Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and ...

Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal and University of Georgia alumna, helped bring the species back to life ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

To find out, researchers compared the dire wolf genome with those of other canids, including jackals, foxes, dholes, and modern wolves. All in all, Colossal made 20 edits to the gray wolf genome ...

The dire wolf’s evolutionary history spans far deeper than many realize. The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota, dates back approximately 250,000 years.

At L.A.’s famed La Brea Tar Pits, fossil remains from more than 3,600 dire wolves have been discovered and the adjacent museum devotes an entire wall to displaying around 400 dire wolf skulls.

While the gray wolf and the dire wolf are separated by a few million years of evolution, they share over 99.5% of their genomes.

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then.