Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups ...

Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an ...

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

They transferred that genetic material to an egg cell from a domestic dog ... a giant elk or a big deer,” because they won’t have opportunities to watch and learn from wild dire wolf parents ...

They mapped the genome, rewrote gray wolf DNA, then implanted that DNA into genetically engineered dog embryos which they ... mastodons, giant ground sloths, American camels and ancient bison ...

As they chase each other around their enclosure, nipping each other playfully or gnawing intently on sticks, they certainly ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a factor in the extinction of dire wolves. Climate change and possibly ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals ... and it would be really cool to see a giant ground sloth, and that's worth ...