Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...

Dog diversity in size and shape started 11,000 years ago, predating modern breeding. Research on dog and wolf skulls has ...

But within a few thousand years, generations of domesticated life had started to become visible in dogs’ bones. The oldest ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found. While wild dog-wolf hybrids had previously only been suspected through ...

“The dire wolf’s story is a banner of possibility.” Colossal Biosciences achieved the unthinkable in October 2024 with the birth of Romulus and Remus, dire wolves lost to extinction more than 10,000 ...

When you think of dire wolves, you might think of the huge, fierce beasts in Game of Thrones. However, dire wolves were actually real animals and roamed North and South America thousands of years ago.

"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus Colossal Sciences A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire ...

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore warns of Dire Wolf’s double-extortion tactics, which have already impacted 16 organizations across 11 countries, crippling operations and exposing sensitive data ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

The three dire wolves created using fossil DNA had their first official hang just months before their first birthday. Trump’s shutdown win just landed Republicans with a huge political headache ...