The Company Trying to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Already Brought Back the Dire Wolf. The Real Story Is What It Built Along ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

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 ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

“What an unbelievable weekend,” Oregon head coach Melyssa Lombardi said. And it was. Oregon swept the Huskies, who were previously undefeated... It wasn’t exactly the recipe Oregon baseball had in ...

The dire wolf genome analyzed to determine what those changes were was extracted from two ancient samples—one a 13,000-year-old tooth found in Sheridan Pit, Ohio, the other a 72,000-year-old ear bone ...

Colossal Biosciences revealed recently it had born three pups using the ancient DNA of the dire wolf, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

I read that a company recently succeeded in bringing back the dire wolf, a species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. How’d they do it? And what does this mean for other long-gone species ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...