Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...
Dire wolves were fearsome predators that prowled around during the Late Pleistocene, between roughly 10,000 and 250,000 years ago. These carnivorous canids (Aenocyon dirus) were specialized hunters, ...
Part of a dire wolf skull discovered in Iowa is one of the items in the August 29 auction. Hot off of a whopping Martian meteorite auction earlier this summer, a dire wolf skull, fossilized cave bear, ...
Scientists have made this dream a reality by bringing back dire wolves, a species extinct for over 10,000 years. These massive wolves, known from the TV show Game of Thrones, are now growing at an ...
I read that a company recently succeeded in bringing back the dire wolf, a species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. How’d they do it? And what does this mean for other long-gone species ...
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When I returned to Colossal’s new headquarters in Dallas last week for its official grand opening, the first thing I noticed was the lobby. While this large open space looked complete before, ...
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 ...