A black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve.(Image credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images) Fossils show that dire wolves were larger than modern-day gray wolves and had ...

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi aren’t your average pampered pups. They're the modern reincarnations, at least in silhouette, of the dire wolf or Canis dirus: A burly, heavy-jawed predator that ruled Ice ...

The same sediment layers that contained sloth remains also preserved DNA and fossils from other extinct Pleistocene fauna including American cheetahs (Miracinonyx), dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus), ...

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been achieved by Colossal ...

1 Joint International Research Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 2 ...