Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

They were last alive around 13,000 years ago, when the Americas were lush lands of forested mountains, open grasslands and sunny plains. But scientists now claim to have resurrected the dire wolf ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back ...

Dire wolves Romulus and Remus next to each other in the snow at five months old. Credit: Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become a reality. Colossal ...

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A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated ...