You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts. They were real Ice Age predators, ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing ...

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 ...

The television series Game of Thrones helped popularize dire wolves, but the creatures don’t just represent a figment of science fiction: the dire wolf was a real animal that went extinct around ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three pups ...

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 ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...