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 ...

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 ...

A US company made worldwide headlines by “de-extincting” the dire wolf. Now it wants to bring back the Tasmanian tiger. But should it?

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 ...

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 ...

Under the company's definition, a de-extinct animal must share some genetic similarities to the extinct species, but does not have to be identical. Many scientists disagreed with Colossal's decision ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous by Game of Thrones have doubled in size in mere months. Romulus, Remus, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically ...