A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the world’s first de-extinct animal ... the dire wolf is walking the Earth ...

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.

Of those, 15 were meant to reproduce extinct dire wolf gene variants. Colossal claims it’s a record number of unique genetic edits done to any animal. But the dire wolf’s genome is still ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals ... important traits of the extinct animal into a modern animal's DNA sequence.

The wolf pups, which range in age from three to ... said Colossal’s chief animal care expert Matt James. Colossal also reported today that it had cloned four red wolves using blood drawn from ...