The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout and a skull more robust than those of modern wolves. The species went ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. The birth of three wolf pups, named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, is the ...

After viral headlines claimed the dire wolf had been resurrected, scientists quickly debunked the story. Geneticists edited ...

Ice Age (as in the movie) tells the heartwarming tale of a mammoth, sloth, and saber-toothed cat that – against the odds – ...

The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the dire wolf species that disappeared from Earth around 12,500 years ago.

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. At their young ...

A company owned by a wealthy businessman re-creates an extinct apex predator and lets it roam on a private ecological preserve. That’s no longer just the plot of a 1990s science fiction movie.

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas-based ...

The headlines and TV chyrons delivered the breathless news: The dire wolves had returned. It was kind of thrilling, even if you were not a fan of “Game of Thrones” where the creatures were a baleful ...