prompting the state to move to phase two of its gray wolf conservation plan. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will now consider issuing permits that allow ranchers to haze wolves to ...

Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is reintroducing legislation that would return management of gray wolf populations to the states and remove the animal from the endangered and ...

Image: One of the 'dire wolf' pups. Pic: Colossal Biosciences /X Grey wolves were chosen as the donor species for establishing cell lines as they are the closest living relative of dire wolves.

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters.

Dire wolves were much larger than the non-extinct gray wolf; they weighed anywhere from 130 to 150 pounds, stood about three feet at the shoulder and were about six feet long. Who are Romulus and ...

While closely related, dire wolves and gray wolves diverged genetically hundreds of thousands of years ago. Producing pups with traits that resemble the extinct dire wolf—including a larger body ...

Since then, pigs, cats, deer, horses, mice, goats, gray wolves, and more than 1,500 dogs have been cloned using the same technology. Colossal’s dire wolf work took a less invasive approach ...