While a genetics company saw success with a dire wolf revival, can it pull off the Colossal feat of de-extinction in other ...

The specimens facilitated the Colossal team’s recovery of 500 times more dire wolf DNA than any team previously — redefining what’s possible in de-extinction science.

Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series "Game of Thrones".

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for ...

The dire wolf’s evolutionary history spans far deeper than many realize. The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota, dates back approximately 250,000 years.

A few months later, Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company that produced the creatures, declared: “The first ...

Ancient DNA After an academic path that saw her study as a Rhodes Scholar at England’s Oxford University, Shapiro landed a 2007 assistant professorship at Penn State.

One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock ...

Motion-activated field cameras, GPS collars, wolf scat analysis and cattle tail hair samples are helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed new light on how an expanding and protecte… ...

A 2013 study found northeastern coyotes — widely believed to have arrived as a new species only a few decades after wolves were driven out — have a significant amount of wolf and even dog DNA.