Three new wolf packs have emerged in the rural, mountainous regions of northeastern California, wildlife officials announced.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the death of the fourth gray wolf this year. Officials said the female gray wolf, ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with the birth of Romulus and Remus.

The challenge with de-extinction efforts is that they pull the spotlight away from the gravest crises on the planet.

Collaring wolves with GPS devices helps CDFW and the state better understand wolf populations, movement, and habitats.

The lab modified 14 of the over 19,000 genes in a living gray wolf to create their pups. The resultant animals are thus only the tiniest sliver, by our estimation about 0.0018%, dire wolf.

"To have a real proof point that there is technology today that could be fundamentally changing to that fight against biodiversity ... Colossal used a gray wolf genome – which is 99.5% identical ...

Waits, who has worked extensively on gray wolf genetics and red wolf conservation ... But others welcome it as an ambitious way to fight the planet's steady loss of biodiversity.

Rather than sharing close genetic ties with the gray wolf (Canis lupus), as was expected from their resemblance, the dire wolves were evolutionarily distant cousins, long isolated in the Americas.