A tattoo belonging to a self-described “average middle-aged man” from Britain was included in a U.S. government guide on how to identify members of a deadly Venezuelan gang. Pete Belton ...

The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name ...

Romulus and Remus, the pups with dire wolf traits that were bred by Colossal Biosciences, are pictured at three months old. A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical ...

For the two precocious pups are no ordinary canines. Scientists say they have brought back the dire wolf, a long-extinct species, with jaws so large and powerful they once hunted bison and even ...

"Colossal compared the genomes of the dire wolf and the gray wolf, and from about 19,000 genes, they determined that 20 changes in 14 genes gave them a dire wolf," Rawlence said.