It's pretty great," Ben Lamm ... "Game of Thrones" prominently featured dire wolves, including on the crest of House Stark. The wolves are living on a more than 2,000-acre ecological preserve ...

Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl ...