The dire wolf from the ice age was brought back to life with the help of an Ohio fossil. Here's what you need to know and how it happened.

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The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, from Black Hills, South Dakota, is around 250,000 years old. The animals went extinct around 13,000 years ago, according to researchers at Colossal Biosciences.

The dire wolf’s evolutionary history spans far deeper than many realize. The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota, dates back approximately 250,000 years.

Colossal had acquired DNA from two remarkably well-preserved dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho.

Dire wolf remains have been found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico and coast to coast in the southern portions of the United States. Nearly 4,000 dire wolf fossils have been ...

The fossil tooth from Ohio used for the DNA extraction is around 13,000 years old. According to USA TODAY, Colossal harvested ancient DNA from real dire wolf fossils to create dire wolf genomes.