The animal made popular by the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones" could make a comeback from extinction after a Dallas-based biotech company said it has successfully birthed three dire wolf puppies.

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas-based ...

Before going extinct, dire wolves were the most common large carnivores in Iowa. The wolves were present in Iowa at end of the last Ice Age, and evidence of their remains have been found in the state.

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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 disappearing ...

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Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by Trump’s deportations, Trump’s funding cuts and layoffs, Trump’s tariffs and, of course, the tumultuous stock market the tariffs produced—one ...