The dire wolf – an extinct animal made famous in the TV series Game Of Thrones – has been brought back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, a biotech start-up has announced.
Texas company Colossal Biosciences said on Monday its researchers had used cloning and gene-editing based on two ancient samples of dire wolf DNA to birth three modern dire wolf pups – two six-month-old males named Romulus and Remus and a three-month-old female named Khaleesi.
