For decades scientists have dubbed several of our planet's largest mass extinction events - including 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs - the 'Big Five'.

They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when ...

a series of mass extinction events that occurred 372 million years ago, and the Ordovician, which occurred 445 million years ago and was the first of the big five mass extinction events in our ...

There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

and see a ton of highlights from their first five months of life in a brand-new world. You’ll also meet Khaleesi—a little younger, but the very first female dire wolf brought back from extinction. The ...

Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection. Steps nine and 10 are: “implant the early embryo into the ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct ...

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Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

In the last 500 million years, the Earth has experienced five major mass extinction events, known as the "Big Five," and scientists are concerned about when we might enter a sixth. Colossal ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S.