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

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

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.

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

They also found no evidence of gene flow between dire wolves and other canines in North America, indicating that dire wolves evolved separately from the Pleistocene ancestors of gray wolves. Thus ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years old, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives ...

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.