Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct for 13,000 years.

But an analysis of their genomes has revealed a surprise: they are all actually one type of wolf, with varying amounts of coyote DNA, a study reported this week (July 27) in Science Advances. “Wolf ...