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

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

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

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

Shapiro, who was part of the team that first retrieved dire-wolf DNA from fossils in 2021, said recent actions to revoke protections of gray wolves are “terrible” and “not what we need.” ...

The announcement included a pup named Remus, who even appeared on the cover of Time magazine under the headline: “he’s a dire wolf.” The company says the three animals, Remus, Romulus, and ...

Gray wolf pups are born nearly helpless: blind, deaf and lacking the acute sense of smell of their elders. They usually ...

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.

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.

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.