Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Colossal Biosciences have introduced a new kind of wolf to the world, but had you been alive over 12,500 years ago you might’ve seen a similarly enormous predator stalking across the Americas. They ...

Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences ...

Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

“You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024.” [Colossal Biosciences] Earlier this week, ...

Cute as a button, but not dire wolves: Colossal Biosciences claims that these animals, Romulus and Remus, represent an extinct species rescued from oblivion. But experts say that's hype. (Colossal ...

As Easter looms, another resurrection story is currently getting a lot of play. The dire wolf, a hulking canid that roamed the Americas until it went extinct 10,000 years ago has been raised from the ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...