The ability to edit multiple genes in living, viable animals is a remarkable feat, but tweaking a few genes in modern gray ...

The Winds of Winter is likely to bring Jon Snow back from the dead, and George R.R. Martin's book can do it much better than ...

Colossal Biosciences says it's achieved its first successful case of de-extinction in reviving the dire wolf, a top predator that roamed North America before going extinct about 13,000 years ago and ...

The wolf’s fur, scientists are delighted to discover, is totally white—so name it Jon Snow. Name it Arya. Name it Ned or Sansa or Catelyn or (deep cut that none of you non–book readers will ...

Romulus and Remus – and a younger female pup called Khaleesi, after the popular Game of Thrones character, were genetically engineered by a US lab.

In “Game of Thrones,” the majestic white dire wolf Ghost was Jon Snow’s trusted companion. So when a company called Colossal Biosciences announced it had revived the extinct animal — or so ...

George R.R. Martin himself, who popularized the dire wolf as Jon Snow’s Ghost in A Song of Ice and Fire, posed for a picture with the pups to be part of a historic scientific achievement.

Because Shaggydog’s owner Rickon is so young, the wolf and its owner do not leave a significant impact on the show. In season 3, viewers do see Shaggydog help Jon Snow fight off some wildlings.

While Martin is not a genetic scientist, he did serve as a cultural advisor and investor of Colossal Biosciences, which has successfully resurrected the dire wolf species — much to Jon Snow’s ...