Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are ...

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters. At their young ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

Colossal Biosciences shared a progress update on the world's first new dire wolves — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — since the species went extinct Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences ...

Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

On the left is a white wolf pup created by Colossal Biosciences that it says is a de-extincted dire wolf. On the right is a depiction of a dire wolf by a National Park Service artist. Colossal ...

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-based ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three pups ...