While the dire wolf is one of the most notable, and popular, giant canines, it's not the largest. Instead, the largest wolf to exist was much, much bigger.

Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of prehistoric canines. Yet, even the largest dire wolf would pale in comparison to ...

In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead.. Earlier this week, the ...

Dire wolves are also large, typically the size of the largest gray wolf populations. Comparisons between the new genomes and those of other canids show that the dire wolf also had a light-colored ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas ...

The dire wolf is an early example of this, including the largest number of precise genomic edits in a healthy vertebrate so far. A capability that is growing exponentially. ...

The average dire wolf was the size of the largest gray wolves. They stood about 38-inches tall at the shoulder and their bodies measured about 5-feet, 9-inches long.

The dire wolf was the largest mammal in the dog family during the Late Pleistocene period, 129,000 to 11,700 years ago. The first fossils were found in the Ohio River in 1854, according to the ...

Specifically, Lamm noted that the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation) was Colossal's biggest partner on its dire wolf project. They also partnered with the Nez Perce Tribe, ...