The dire wolf’s story is more than a prehistoric footnote—it’s a window into evolution, extinction, and how ecosystems respond to massive changes.

A company revealed Monday it’s created the “world’s first de-extinct animals,” two wolf pups genetically modified to resemble extinct dire wolves.

Colossal Biosciences has achieved a scientific breakthrough by breeding three wolf pups resembling the extinct dire wolves.

Dire wolves went extinct around 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. Weighing around 150 pounds, they were about ...

To de-extinct the dire wolf, Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences extracted and sequenced ancient DNA from two fossils.

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...