In April, the Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf, an animal whose howl had not been heard on Earth since the last member of ...

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Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first ...

A U.S. company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from a 12,500-year extinction. (Colossal Biosciences) ...

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.

The dire wolf is back—sort of. Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences used DNA from dire wolf fossils and surrogate dogs to produce three wolf pups. But University at Buffalo biologist Vincent Lynch ...

On October 1, 2024, the first two dire wolf pups, Romulus and Remus, were born; on January 31, 2025, a third dire wolf named Khaleesi was welcomed into the world.

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Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service The gray wolf returns Wednesday to what seems like its other natural habitat — a courtroom — for a long-awaited clash over its Endangered Species Act status.