A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf.

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.

This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to ...

“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 ...

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 ...