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Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair, muscular jaws like extinct dire wolf

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair, muscular jaws like extinct dire wolf

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Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. The wolf pups, which range in age from three to six months old, have long white hair, muscular jaws and already […]

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The ‘alien goldfish’ finds a home

The ‘alien goldfish’ finds a home

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The early fossil record is littered with bizarre creatures that do not resemble anything living today. And few of those evolutionary enigmas are as perplexing as Typhloesus, an ancient sea animal so strange that paleontologists have referred to it as an alien goldfish. The bloblike animal has defied taxonomic placement for nearly 50 years. Scientists […]

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