Dire wolves might sound like something out of fantasy fiction – especially popularized by the Game of Thrones series – but they were very real creatures that once roamed North and South America.

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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 ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...