Arctotherium Angustidens is often referred to as the short-faced bear, thanks to its comparatively small snouts. The rest was, naturally, colossal. They lived in the region that's now South America ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences announced what they called the “world’s first de-extinction,” the births of three dire wolves, extinct animals that lived during the ice ages of the Pleistocene.

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 ... pups − all with striking white fur − created with the help of ancient DNA obtained from fossilized remains of the extinct animals. ... it's really cute.

The finished animals, if born, may resemble their extinct counterparts in outward appearance and some behavior—but they will not be genetically identical. Rather, they will be hybrids, mosaics ...