Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

Meet the dire wolf: The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast. ... as well as the color of their coats, Shapiro said.

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 story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their ...

The dire wolf is a relative of the now-common gray wolf, with clear differences apparent between the two species' skeletons. ... A similar thing was done to achieve the light coat color.

Dire wolf DNA is specifying uniquely dire wolf phenotypes in living canids for the first time in 12,000 years. Functional de-extinction, partial genetic resurrection, call it what you will. I call ...

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 ...

Using CRISPR, a gene-editing tool with scissor-like precision, Colossal modified 14 genes tied to the dire wolf’s physical traits, such as size, musculature and fur quality and color.

A dire wolf is a now-de-extinct canine that lived in the Americas during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs, which were between 125,000 to 10,000 years ago.

A third dire wolf, Khaleesi—a nod to Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen—was born in January. Colossal’s chief science officer, ... size, and color of their body.

Meet the dire wolf: The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast. ... as well as the color of their coats, Shapiro said.