It is already a questionable idea to return the long-extinct dire wolf—a creature 25 percent bigger than the modern gray wolf, whose enormous teeth once slew horses and bison across the primordial ...

House of the Dragon features several of the dragons fans have been hearing about since Game of Thrones -- but which are ...

“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because ...

Colossal Biosciences announced that, using modern genetic engineering, it had brought three dire wolves into this world. Although direwolves ...

Without them, Westeros might not exist,' Martin said, recounting his longtime fascination with the ancient wolves.

The dire wolf is a mainstay of fantasy settings in pop culture but came to prominence in the popular HBO series, based on ...

Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...

So yes, the Game of Thrones influence on these dire wolves is strong. However, Thrones is just a fantasy, as fleeting as a ...

Colossal Biosciences—the company whose mission is “de-extinction”—has pulled off one of the wildest feats in modern science: ...