The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

Experts have tried to understand for several decades how long multiple extinct species inhabited the Earth. This helps ...

“The de-extinction of the dire wolf and an end-to-end system for de-extinction is transformative and heralds an entirely new ...

In the US, a bridge across a major 10-lane high speed freeway is being built at a cost of more than US$100 million so that ...

They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals that roamed the continent during the Pleistocene epoch. In boneyards across the continent, scientists have found the fossils of a giant ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn't mean they ... view that people could have been so active as to hunt every animal of any body size, in every context, in every possible ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf?