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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us learned about extinction in high school biology, but did you know that de-extinction is real, too? The dire wolf, which ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it ...

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It has been over 12,000 years since the last dire wolves vanished from the Earth. But the apex predators, made famous by Game of Thrones, are once again growing their pack. Last year, Colossal ...

Scientists — and avid Game of Thrones viewers — have known about dire wolves and their extinction for a while. The species became extinct thousands of years ago, but thanks to the work of modern ...

Back in 2000, I wrote a piece for California Wild about the prospects for wolf restoration in the state. At that time, there had not been any wolves reported in the Golden State in decades.