Temperatures were cold. Large glaciers covered the landscape. Mastodons, wooly mammoths and dire wolves roamed freely. That was Indiana during the Pleistocene period, which lasted from two million to ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

Pennsylvania Outdoor Corp members clean headstones in Boyd Big Tree Preserve, promoting conservation and environmental education.

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

The Dire Wolf, once a mythical figure thanks to Game of Thrones, is experiencing a major revival, thanks to Colossal Biosciences, the ambitious biotech company working on de-extincting species ...

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist Group concluded. Even if the company had recreated something much ...

“Very few people would actually fall in that higher expense, Tier 3, because not everybody who runs cattle is losing cattle to wolves,” said Amy Porter, director of conservation at Wolf Haven ...

One of de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences' "dire wolf" pups at three months. Photo / Colossal When a snow-white wolf appeared on a recent cover of Time magazine, billed as the resurrection ...

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.

experts warn” (April 20), highlights an unproductive attempt to shift conservation priorities. Genetically modifying gray wolves to resemble the extinct dire wolf may be an impressive scientific ...

and with serious forethought into animal welfare considerations and clear connection to purpose (conservation, for example).” A dire wolf bred by Colossal Biosciences roams. Credit: Colossal ...