The Lannisters aren’t the only ones paying their debts — nature has reversed a 12,500-year-old debt, returning dire wolves to a throne they never truly abandoned. Indeed, dire wolves are no longer a ...

“Dire” is from this animal’s Latin name: Canis dirus, or “fearsome dog.” Essentially, de-extinction — a neologism — involves taking fragments of DNA from an extinct species, creating embryos from that ...

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...