This means there are likely to be many more genetic differences between dire wolves and gray wolves. Editing 20 SNPs—out of billions of base pairs—is a minuscule change in evolutionary terms.

Why am I mentioning this when writing an opinion piece on the Dire wolf? Well, it has been claimed, though admittedly not by ...

Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced the successful birth of three healthy dire wolf pups after ...

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

A genetic engineering company claims to have recreated the long-extinct dire wolf. It's a species that lived thousands of years ago when the world was a different place. But did the company ...

recovering genetic information they could use to restore health and diversity to the red wolves. A few years later, and in the shadow of the dire wolf news, some of those ghost alleles were ...

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

"Dire wolves and gray wolves diverged from a common ancestor. They may be in the same family, but not in the same genus." Lynn sees the cubs as "gray wolves with genetic materials from dire wolves." ...

(AP) - Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting ... They transferred that genetic material to an egg cell from a domestic dog. When ready, embryos ...

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters.

(AP) - Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting ... They transferred that genetic material to an egg cell from a domestic dog. When ready, embryos were ...