It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

For the first time in 16 years, Washington state’s overall gray wolf population decreased from the year before, based on information gathered by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife and ...

Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column and has covered de-extinction for more than a decade.

There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for ...

While we know they’re much bigger than their modern domesticated family members, it can be hard to determine just how big they were – which is why we created this dire wolf size comparison guide. Dire ...

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, by Peter Wolf (Little-Brown, 335 pp., $30). In his elegant memoir of postwar Greenwich Village life, When Kafka Was the Rage, ...

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 Game of Thrones series popularized the dire wolf as the emblem of the noble and doomed House Stark, and now Colossal claims to have brought it—or at least something that looks like a dire ...

On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years ...