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 ...

Earlier this year, Colossal Biosciences claimed to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf. The canid species has been extinct for over 10,000 years and features prominently in George R. R. Martin's Song of ...

It's been six months since two not-quite dire wolves were born on Earth around 10,000-12,000 years after the extinction of the species. Now, the two shaggy six-month-olds, Romulus and Remus, along ...

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 ...

First the mammoth, now the bluebuck. Colossal Biosciences aims to resurrect a lost African icon. Is science the new conservation?

The successful birth of Colossal Biosciences' dire wolves represents far more than a scientific milestone—it marks the beginning of a new era in conservation biology. While the resurrection of an Ice ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf. A slow clap from ...

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 ...

In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal Biosciences claimed to have de-extincted the dire wolf. Dire wolves, which ...