These genetically-engineered “dire wolves” are now six months old, and are already markedly bigger than gray wolves at their age. Both males are over 90 pounds, and Khaleesi is still visibly smaller ...

People can debate for days, weeks and years whether dragons ever existed, but there are some fantastical creatures we know to have been real. The dire wolf, made famous as the symbol of House Stark in ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous by Game of Thrones have doubled in size in mere months. Romulus, Remus, ...

The news that the extinct dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) has supposedly been brought back from the dead has taken the world by storm. The biotech company Colossal Biosciences claims it has officially ...

When Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences' announced it was bringing back dire wolves from extinction, lots of people wondered if this was fact or fantasy. William Lynn, a research scientist at Clark ...

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Colossal Biosciences’ cloned “dire wolves” hit a major milestone this week, as the female dire ...