The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went ...

There are no other marsupial apex predators so when it was made extinct it left a massive gap." Some researchers argue that efforts to bring back long-gone species could detract from conservation ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Some experts argue keeping them in an enclosure ... A number of experts say that bringing back extinct animals will not solve any conservation problems and that efforts would be better spent ...

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

But some conservationists are expressing wide-ranging concern about the unintended consequences that could arise as researchers continue to try to resurrect versions of extinct animals.

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.