A biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct ...

Advertisement Advertisement The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years ...

‘Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf.’ In other words, it’s not a dire wolf – it’s a gray wolf modified to be more like a dire wol ...

“The de-extinction of the dire wolf and an end-to-end system for de-extinction is transformative and heralds an entirely new ...

Real or hybrid, news of the resurrection of the dire wolf is a big deal with huge implications for conservation efforts, the advancement of science, and the business of bioscience.

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 ...

In other words, you’re glad a machine is doing the work. Nine months of computational power later, they had a reconstructed genome that once made up the dire wolf. From there, Shapiro and her ...

Scientists have revived a wolf species closely resembling that of the extinct dire wolf made famous by Martin’s ‘Game of ...

A group of scientists claims to have brought back to life a species of wolf that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago - but is it true? Here's all we know about the three pups created by ...

The news of the revived dire wolves took the internet by storm. Time magazine featured a cover with an image of a white wolf and the word “Extinct" was crossed out. There was also a photo of the ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.