Click Here to Read: Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close: Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins By Carl Zimmer in The New York Times on April 7. 2025.
Reconstruction of Canis dirus (dire wolf) (Pleistocene, North America) Image: James St. John Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
