This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Scientists recently revealed that they have "brought back" extinct dire wolves thanks to genetic engineering — but experts say the newly created animals are only like dire wolves in appearance.

But strictly speaking, the creatures aren’t dire wolves, nor do they represent the first species to be brought back. And that is not to take away one iota of interest from the firm’s achievement, nor ...

and a wonderful example of the power of biotechnology to protect species, both extant and extinct,” Mason said. This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.

The extinct species was recently made famous on the TV series Game of Thrones. The company achieved this feat using cloning and gene-editing techniques based on two ancient dire wolf DNA samples.

A US bioscience company has reconstructed the complete genome of a wolf species, the dire wolf, that went extinct more than 10 millennia ago to produce three wolf cubs that could resemble their ...

From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists are getting ever closer to being able to bring long-lost species back from the dead. Millions of years ago ...

Although the animals are not exact replicas of the ancient species, they carry 20 key dire wolf genes, including those influencing size, coat colour, and build. Two males named Romulus and Remus ...

Colossal previously announced efforts to revive other extinct species like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, but the dire wolf's return is the first successful mammalian de ...

From those two specimens, Shapiro and the team at Colossal recovered enough DNA to create two dire wolf genomes to compare with other canid species including coyotes, jackals, dholes and ...

The gene knockout technique could be scaled up and potentially used to manage the invasive species. The relentless swarm of cane toads (Rhinella marina) conquering Australia may soon be hobbled by ...

A NSW government specialist shooting team has killed more than 400 feral cats in an effort to protect native species. One feral cat is able to kill at least 700 native animals a year, according to ...