Scientists may be celebrating the return of the dire wolf, but noted actress Whoopi Goldberg wants the resurrection of prehistoric animals to stop there. From her seat on The View, the Oscar-winning ...

Or, maybe, it's just a grey wolf with a few tweaks. American biotech company Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead ...

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 ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals that are not the same as their ancestors and are actually hybrid animals.

Romulus and Remus nod to the legendary founders of Rome, raised by a wolf, while Khaleesi evokes the dire wolves of Game of Thrones. It's a resurrection story made for the headlines, but beneath ...

A global company headquartered in Dallas says it has been able to successfully "de-extinct" the dire wolf using DNA from bone fragments unearthed in the United States. The dire wolf, larger with ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said in a statement. “It was once said, ‘any sufficiently ...

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...

The Time Magazine featured a recreated dire wolf on its cover Remus, the wolf, is a genetically modified dire wolf Colossal Biosciences lead the de-extinction efforts A dire wolf on the cover of Time ...

The team extracted genetic material from two dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho. (Photo: Colossal Bioscience) Defying extinction is now ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows Romulus and Remus, both 3-months old and genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf.(AP) The start-up, that aims to ...