The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout and a skull more robust than those of modern wolves. The species went ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

Colossal Biosciences achieves a scientific breakthrough. They bring back the dire wolf from extinction. Using genetic engineering, the team extracted DNA from ancient fossils. They created embryos ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal ...

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out.

Donation Options Search Search Search A dire wolf exhibit on display at the Field Museum, Wedneseday, April 9, 2025. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share This week another curious bit of science came in ...

So, did Colossal actually de-extinct a long lost species? Well, the dire wolf is in the details. That’s the current thinking, anyway—as with anything in science, new evidence can change things.

Romulus and Remus, seen here at one-month-old, are two of the three "dire wolf" siblings created by Colossal since last fall. © Colossal Biosciences The single ...

Today, you have access to more than 4,000 dire wolf specimens housed in the museum’s collections and on display, including “the endling,” the last known dire wolf fossil on Earth ...

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a young wolf that was genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via AP) Editor’s note: The ...