By editing the DNA of existing gray wolf cells to include some traits from long-extinct dire wolves (like their white hair and large size) and using them to create viable embryos with cloning ...

Mayurica Biswas’ The Resurrection Quest, a four-part documentary series, tells the stories behind these real life experiments, while also asking the question: is this so-called “de-extinction ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans and other mammals might sound like something out of sci-fi movie. Yet new findings indicate that the ...

Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company behind the dire wolf project, has its sights set on even more ambitious goals. So, what extinct species could be brought back to life next? Let’s take a look.

Released in 1940, Disney’s ground breaking animation Fantasia featured The Rite of Spring, depicting Earth’s early history and the extinction of dinosaurs. At the time, scientists believed climate ...

Dire wolves, extinct for over 10,000 years, are back thanks to Colossal Biosciences. Using ancient DNA and CRISPR gene editing, scientists successfully re-engineered gray wolves to possess the ...

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder. George R.R. Martin himself, who popularized the dire wolf as Jon Snow ...

“Extinction is still forever,” Paleogeneticist Dr Nic Rawlence from Otago University in New Zealand reacted to the ‘de-extinction’ of the Game of Thrones-famous dire wolf. Texas-based ...

De-Extinction Dire Wolf: A United States-based bioscience company on Monday claimed that it had revived an extinct species of animal, the dire wolf, made famous by the Game of Thrones TV series.

The dire wolf, a species which has been extinct for more than 10,000 years, is now back thanks to genetic engineering. This major milestone has been achieved by Dallas-based biotech company Colossal ...

Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...

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