Critics say these efforts create genetically modified versions, not true de-extinctions.

We've got today's trends: Sign up for USA TODAY's Everyone's Talking newsletter. With the reveal of the dire wolf puppies, Colossal shows "that our end-to-end (de-extinction) toolkit that we ...

Colossal researchers contacted museums and laboratories with dire wolf specimens and got access to a tooth thought to be about 13,000 years old, found in Ohio, and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho.

"We've got dire wolf bones from Mississippi and Florida. We have several partial jaws. We have isolated teeth and other bones." According to Colossal, DNA was extracted from a tooth and a skull.

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But as we got closer, I think I became much more of ... An adolescent wolf created as part of Colossal Biosciences' dire wolf de-extinction project.(Courtesy of Colossal) When the three pups ...

The moon landings had just begun, so obviously we’d have flying cars by the time I got my driver’s license ... t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome ...

Shapiro and the researchers at Colossal contacted museums and laboratories with dire wolf specimens and got access to a tooth thought to be about 13,000 years old, found in Ohio, and a 72,000-year ...