The Lannisters aren’t the only ones paying their debts — nature has reversed a 12,500-year-old debt, returning dire wolves to a throne they never truly abandoned. Indeed, dire wolves are no longer a ...

“Dire” is from this animal’s Latin name: Canis dirus, or “fearsome dog.” Essentially, de-extinction — a neologism — involves taking fragments of DNA from an extinct species, creating embryos from that ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. But, in early April, it was “resurrected” by Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetic engineering company that performed the supposed rebirth of ...

announced earlier this month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!