Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at a Dallas-based biotech firm say they are bringing back the dire wolf from extinction, a species popularized by the ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

(CNN) — 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.

To evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch, what Colossal made is closer to a genetically modified gray wolf than a resurrection of an extinct species. "They made clones of gray wolves with 20 genetic ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited genes ...

The first major frontier of “de-extinction” has just been crossed. Earlier today, the company Colossal Biosciences reported that its scientists have successfully brought back a version of the dire ...

Happy Birthday to the dire wolves. Romulus and Remus, two male dire wolves born through Colossal Biosciences’ genetic engineering advances, have reached their first birthday. The Dallas-headquartered ...