Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species. Dire wolves became extinct towards the ...

Across the planet, islands are homes to species of animals that cannot be found anywhere else. Isolated from the mainland, these species become genetically different from close relatives simply ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

Before you ask, Velociraptors, the highly intelligent, deadly predators of "Jurassic Park," are not on the list of extinct species being studied, nor are any other dinosaurs. The ...

The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science world. The species of canine -- about the same size as ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three pups ...

The headlines and TV chyrons delivered the breathless news: The dire wolves had returned. It was kind of thrilling, even if you were not a fan of “Game of Thrones” where the creatures were a baleful ...

The genetic engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, first announced the arrival of the dire wolves in April Colossal Biosciences shared footage from the first face-to-face meeting between its three ...