Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Colossal Biosciences shared a progress update on the world's first new dire wolves — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — since the species went extinct ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it ...

A genetic engineering company claims to have recreated the long-extinct dire wolf. It's a species that lived thousands of years ago when the world was a different place. But did the company actually ...

To evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch, what Colossal made is closer to a genetically modified gray wolf than a resurrection of an extinct species. "They made clones of gray wolves with 20 genetic ...

Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf, but those tweaks gave rise to a host of differences, including Romulus’ and Remus’ white coat, larger size ...