Turns out, it's really cute. Dire wolf skulls were significantly larger than gray wolves' The dire wolf was very similar to the present-day gray wolf but was much heavier, with a larger ...

Colossal's approach involved extracting ancient DNA from a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull found in Idaho and a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio. The team then studied this genetic material to identify ...

Colossal's chief scientific officer Beth Shapiro says scientists extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from a dire wolf skull, and extracted and sequenced ...

“Seeing hundreds of dire wolf skulls displayed on a wall stirred something deep inside me,” he recalled. This inspiration led to the iconic scene in Game of Thrones where Stark children ...

Colossal's chief scientific officer Beth Shapiro says scientists extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from a dire wolf skull, and extracted and sequenced the ...

Colossal had retrieved more than 400 dire wolf skulls from the La Brea Tar Pits in California, along with a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho, extracting DNA ...

The Colossal team claims to have used a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull and a 13,000-year-old tooth to isolate real dire wolf genome sequences, then map some of that genome onto gray wolf DNA.

Romulus and Remus, pups that the company Colossal Biosciences says are the first dire wolves to roam the planet in several thousand years, are seen at one month old. Colossal Biosciences A ...

From certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses. Just when you start considering what ...

“We took a 13,000 year old tooth and a 73,000 year old skull, and we made puppies. We have three dire wolves.” Romulus and Remus, the dire wolf pups, stand in snow. Scientists knew from the ...