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

Imagine that you could travel back in time, to before Minnesota was settled. In this scenario, you’re an eagle, carving huge circles against a cobalt sky, riding a midday’s thermals, while below, ...

Wildlife biologist Doug Smith joins Ian White to discuss his upcoming talk at Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall as part of the National Geographic Live series.

The pups "are better understood as slightly-modified gray wolves rather than true dire wolves," according to National Geographic. Colossal used a gray wolf genome – which is 99.5% identical to the ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, has created three dire wolf pups. See why they ...

Colossal, the company looking to return the woolly mammoth to Earth, has created three dire wolves. See what they look like today.

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately ...