A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column and has covered de-extinction for more than a decade.

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

At first, Peter Wolf — best known as the limber-limbed solo artist and former lead singer of the J. Geils Band — may not seem like a day-one Bob Dylan fan who saw some of the legendary bard ...

A wolf released through Colorado’s controversial reintroduction program last winter met its end in north-central Wyoming last week, killed by federal agents who suspect the animal of preying on ...

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 ...

This was more like it. Senior shortstop Addison Wolf had a reason to howl Monday morning for St. Charles East, right after breathing a sigh of relief at the Go Pro Sports Dome in Shorewood.

“On March 15, USDA’s Wildlife Services responded to a sheep predation event on private lands in north central Wyoming. Evidence, consistent with wolf depredation was observed at the site, including ...

Michigan’s Danny Wolf sat in a folding chair in the corner of a noisy locker room in Indianapolis early Sunday night, wearing a Big Ten Championship hat on his head, a souvenir medal draped ...