For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal de-extinction.

Two endangered red wolves are being flown into Raleigh from New York on Wednesday as part of a “wolf swap” between Durham’s Museum of Life and Science and the Wolf Conservation Center. A mom, dad and ...

Three unique-looking wolf pups have just been born in an American laboratory. Their special feature? Their DNA combines genes from gray wolves and sequences dating back 13,000 years. This birth marks ...

Bringing a super-sized canine back from extinction after 12,500 years sounds like the start of a movie where the special effects include gnawed flesh and buckets of fake intestines, but apparently ...