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

The legendary dire wolf – an iconic creature that vanished around 13,000 years ago and gained fame through HBO’s Game of ...

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

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

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

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.

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.