Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

The gray wolf, also known as the timber wolf or the western wolf, is a canid native to the wilderness and remote areas of North America, Eurasia, and North Africa. It is the largest extant member ...

The dire wolf is a relative of the now-common gray wolf, with clear differences apparent between the two species' skeletons. Based on the sequence of two new dire wolf genomes, ...

"Colossal has said that the gray wolf and dire wolf genomes are 99.5% identical, but that is still 12,235,000 individual differences," Nic Lawrence, a paleogeneticist and associate professor at ...

Scientists say the wolves carry dire wolf genes but are essentially hybrid animals with 99.9% gray wolf genome. Experts note the technology could help endangered species, ...

The Mexican gray wolf subspecies has made a significant recovery in the American Southwest over the last 25 years, but government biologists now worry that the reintroduction of the larger northern… ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

In 2004, a gray wolf that had been previously captured and collared in the U.P.'s Mackinac County was caught and accidentally killed by a coyote trapper in Presque Isle County in the Lower Peninsula.

With multiple gray wolf attacks on cattle in California in the past eight months, some Nevada ranchers and livestock owners may be concerned. advertisement. Reno-Gazette-Journal.

Ken Angielczyk, curator of fossil mammals, compares a dire wolf skull, left, and a gray wolf skull in the collection at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) ...

Federal wildlife officials removed the gray wolf from the U.S. Endangered Species Act list on Thursday, saying the wolf population has recovered and the animal no longer needs federal protection.

Gray wolf population growing fast in California — up sixfold in the past five years Recovery of iconic predator considered a wildlife success story by some, but a headache by ranchers.