In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal ...

Dire wolves have also appeared in video games including Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft, tabletop game classic Dungeons & Dragons, and card game Magic the Gathering.. But the dire wolf is an ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas ...

Dire wolf skulls were significantly larger than gray wolves' ... Ohio, about 13,000 years old, and an inner-ear bone from American Falls, Idaho, roughly 72,000 years old. ...

It's pretty great," Ben Lamm, Colossal co-founder and CEO, told the American-Statesman. ... The dire wolf stood about 3½ feet tall and could be even longer than 6 feet and weigh up to 150 pounds.

Dire wolves lived across the American midcontinent during the Ice Age. The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, from Black Hills, South Dakota, is around 250,000 years old.

Colossal’s scientists then took cells from a gray wolf—with whom the dire wolf shares 99.5 percent of its DNA—and used CRISPR to edit the genes to be more like a dire wolf.

The company took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies, according to Colossal Biosciences CEO, Ben Lamm. “I could not be more proud of ...

Dire wolves, which are 25% larger than gray wolves, lived on the American continent during the Pleistocene between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago and became extinct at the end of the last ...

About 25% larger than modern-day gray wolves, dire wolves had thicker, more muscular legs, more powerful shoulders, a wider head and snout with larger jaws and teeth. The dire wolf stood about 3½ ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. after going extinct around 13,000 years ago.