A black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve.(Image credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images) Fossils show that dire wolves were larger than modern-day gray wolves and had ...

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi aren’t your average pampered pups. They're the modern reincarnations, at least in silhouette, of the dire wolf or Canis dirus: A burly, heavy-jawed predator that ruled Ice ...

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

the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been achieved by Colossal ...

1 Joint International Research Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 2 ...

Did you know Native Americans once shared the land with some truly wild creatures that are now extinct? 🦣 From woolly mammoths to saber-toothed cats, these animals roamed North America ...

The breakthrough has been achieved by Colossal Biosciences, a multibillion-dollar United States company that claims their goal is to restore biodiversity through the de-extinction of species.

Red wolves (Canis rufus) once spread from Texas to the Carolinas, but the species was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. Fewer than 20 remain alive today in the wild. “Adding Colossal’s red ...