The dire wolves brought back from extinction earlier this year are on track with their milestones and have surpassed their cousin wolves in size in the process. On Wednesday, Sept. 3, Rob Keyes of ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Winter is coming ... and so are the dire wolves. The large canines — best known for being featured in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" — went extinct nearly 13,000 years ago. But they're now making a ...

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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 ...

In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...

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 ...