But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands of years before that, alongside saber tooth tigers and ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas ...

It is as strategic as it is media-savvy, guaranteeing spectacular photos and videos, and neatly fitting into the narrative of charismatic megafauna like the saber-toothed tiger. The dire wolf’s genome ...

This puts the dire wolf in the same category as other fierce carnivores like the saber-tooth tiger. Hypercarnivores like the dire wolf had large, sharp canine teeth perfect for slicing through ...

Despite their fictional significance, dire wolves were real-world predators that lurked across North America with mastodons and saber tooth tigers during the Ice Age. They hunted horses ...