Looking for blind cavefish in San Luis Potosí, biologist Luis Espinasa and his team accidentally found the remains of giant ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...

A Texas-based biotech company has brought dire wolves—a species extinct for about 10,000 to 12,500 years—back to life in a landmark genetic engineering project. Colossal Biosciences, known for its ...

A large canine species that once roamed the Americas, dire wolves coexisted with other Ice Age megafauna such as saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and woolly mammoths. The company claims it ...

They lived throughout the Americas and likely evolved to hunt down the especially massive megafauna seen during the Ice Age. One difference from modern canines was their size; on average ...

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