A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...

Colossal Biosciences announced in April that it had created dire-wolf-like creatures. This year, we could hear the wolves’ ...

Colossal’s “dire wolves” aren’t monsters, miracles, or evolutionary glitches. They’re gray wolves that are still very much ...

Colossal Biosciences has successfully brought back the dire wolf, a species that disappeared from Earth approximately 13,000 ...

A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf.

The dire wolf is back—sort of. Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences used DNA from dire wolf fossils and surrogate dogs to ...

Three names that will forever be remembered in the annals of science: Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—the world’s first ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately ...

A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves. Dire wolves, with reddish ...

Scientists have successfully mapped the genome of the Tasmanian tiger, an extinct marsupial native to Australia that was last seen in its natural habitat in 1936.