A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric predators

The interior secretary cited a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf to generate momentum for a rollback of 50 years of species protections.

The dire wolf is a canine species that has been extinct for around 10,000 years, having lived up to 250,000 years ago. Living in the Americas, they are thought to have "died out as their prey did", said Scientific American.