Foxes and wolves – especially red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) – have captured imaginations for ...

The scientists then identified gene variants specific to dire wolves and discovered that these wolves had a white coat color and long thick fur.

Colossal Biosciences, the world’s only de-extinction company, today announces the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf, the world’s first successfully de-ex ...

Now, in a coordinated PR blitz, the company is claiming that clones of gray wolves with lightly edited genomes have essentially brought the dire wolf back.

Given that dire wolf DNA differs by roughly 0.5% from that of gray wolves, the researchers have barely scratched the surface.

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. The scientists scanned the recovered dire wolf sequences for specific ...

Scientists say the wolves carry dire wolf genes but are essentially hybrid animals with 99.9% gray wolf genome.

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct for 13,000 years.

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.