Dire wolves - the legendary creatures that once roamed prehistoric landscapes, only existed in the imaginations of storytellers - until now.

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

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Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct ... at the size of some smaller dog breeds, ground sloths also ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting ... genetic material to an egg cell from a domestic dog. When ready, embryos were transferred to surrogates ...

They mapped the genome, rewrote gray wolf DNA, then implanted that DNA into genetically engineered dog ... giant ground sloths, American camels and ancient bison also became extinct at the end ...

Colossal Biosciences said the wolf pups range in age from three to six months old and have long white hair and muscular jaws.