The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the dire wolf species that disappeared from Earth around 12,500 years ago.

In a controversial announcement earlier this month, scientists with the company Colossal Biosciences claimed they have brought back dire wolves from extinction using genetic engineering. Dire wolves ...

De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring animal cloning firm Viagen. The same day, ...

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 ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas-based ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the ...

Tom Brady says his new dog Junie was cloned from his late pit bull Lua by Colossal Biosciences, the same firm behind the ...

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With ...

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters. At their young ...

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 ...

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