The North really does remember. The genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced on the morning of April 7 that they've successfully brought direwolves back to life. Well, sort of. They took dire wolf DNA found from old fossils and, as The Hollywood Reporter reported, mixed them with "the genetic code of a gray wolf, the species' closest living relative." They now have three young, living dire wolves roaming around, just three shy of what the Stark family found at the start of "Game of Thrones." As THR explained:

"The Colossal company has named its two new male dire wolves — a pair of six-month old adolescents — Romulus and Remus, after the mythological twin founders of Rome, who were said to have been raised by a wolf. And in an homage to 'Game of Thrones' [character] Daenerys Targaryen, it's christened a female puppy Khaleesi. The trio are now living in an enclosed preserve of...