A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf.

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies," Lamm said. "It was once said, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is ...

We took a 13,000-year-old to a 73,000-year-old skull and made puppies. It's pretty magical." But some critics say it's not that simple. But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal CEO Ben Lamm. “It was once said, ‘any sufficiently advanced ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies.” The three dire wolves are living on a 2,000-acre site at an undisclosed ...

The "dire wolf was the sigil, or mascot ... created using DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull. The dire wolves live in a fenced-in nature preserve in a "secret" location ...

Ken Angielczyk, curator of fossil mammals, compares a dire wolf skull, left, and a gray wolf skull in the collection at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune ...

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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.