Dire wolves might sound like something out of fantasy fiction – especially popularized by the Game of Thrones series ... What to know about Dire Wolf — nature’s prehistoric powerhouse. 1w.

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

Here's a look at what we know about the prehistoric species: Where the dire wolves roamed 13,000 years ago. Along with saber-toothed cats and enormous short-faced bears, dire wolves were once ...

Colossal Biosciences has brought back the prehistoric dire wolf, of Game of Thrones fame, with help from Peter Jackson. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dire Wolves Return in De-Extinction Breakthrough ...

Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living ...

To make the pups, scientists extracted DNA from two prehistoric dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth discovered in Sheridan Pit, Ohio, and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from American ...

Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

Scientists at the Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences proclaimed on Monday they had bred three genetically engineered dire wolves – an extinct, prehistoric canid species that ...

The prehistoric dogs eventually evolved into larger sizes and independently evolved some traits similar to those of gray wolves, leading to the origin of dire wolves around 230,000 years ago. 4th ...

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.

The skeletal resemblance can be close enough that even experts sometimes have difficulty properly identifying a dire wolf fossil from a prehistoric gray wolf one. When dire wolves went extinct ...

Dire Wolves Have Just Been Brought Back From Extinction — and No This Isn’t Some ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy. In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the ...