Product Review Game Of Thrones Dire Wolves Were Real We Now Know Why They Went Extinct

Why didn't they name the new dire wolves after the Game of Thrones direwolves?

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences announced that, using modern genetic engineering, it had brought three dire wolves into this world. Although direwolves are alive and well on Game of Thrones, ... Read More

What Is a Dire Wolf? How Formerly Extinct Species Compares to Gray Wolves

For the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf is echoing once more—this time, from within a secretive nature preserve in the United States. The predator, long thought extinct and ... Read More

Real dire wolves, made famous by 'Game of Thrones,' thriving on first birthday

Happy Birthday to the dire wolves. Romulus and Remus, two male dire wolves born through Colossal Biosciences’ genetic engineering advances, have reached their first birthday. The Dallas-headquartered ... Read More

Khaleesi Joins Real-Life Dire Wolf Pack Inspired by Game of Thrones in New Video

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Colossal Biosciences’ cloned “dire wolves” hit a major milestone this week, as the female dire ... Read More

Dire wolf meet-up: Watch Colossal's female wolf frolic with older brothers

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ... Read More

Opinion: Baby “dire wolves” are making headlines across the scientific community, but is de-extinction really the miracle science it’s made out to be?

In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ... Read More

This Company Claimed to ‘De-extinct’ Dire Wolves. Then the Fighting Started

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ... Read More

Real dire wolves, made famous by 'Game of Thrones,' thriving on first birthday

Two male dire wolves, Romulus and Remus, have celebrated their first birthday. The wolves were born through genetic engineering by biotech company Colossal Biosciences. At one year old, the male dire ... Read More