The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again. A high-profile de‑extinction company says it has produced pups modeled on ...

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ...

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 ...

Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences, famed for its controversial de-extinction projects, says it has achieved a breakthrough in efforts to revive the long-lost dodo bird. Five months after claiming to ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alex Erwin, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you been hearing ...