Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of ...

After being delayed a day, Colorado Parks and Wildlife published the April wolf activity map that shows extensive travel from one wolf. A strip of purple that roughly follows U.S. Route 50 in southern ...

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for ...

Even after the conclusion of the dramatic events depicted in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, there is still so much more to the story. From Henry VIII’s surprising second thoughts to the ...

Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column and has covered de-extinction for more than a decade.

DENVER (KDVR) — A second gray wolf introduced to Colorado has died during April, this time inside the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said that the female ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of echidnas and platypuses on its head. Up until now, the accepted ...

or inner ear bone, which is a good source of well-preserved DNA, Shapiro said. From those two specimens, Shapiro and the team at Colossal recovered enough DNA to create two dire wolf genomes to ...

A collared gray wolf released in Colorado in January as part of the state’s historic reintroduction effort died in Rocky Mountain National Park this week, wildlife officials said Thursday.

A group of scientists claims to have brought back to life a species of wolf that went extinct more ... from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from Idaho. Image: One of the 'dire wolf ...