Ever since the announcement of the supposed de-extinction of the dire wolf after being gone for 12,500 years, conversations surrounding the use of cloning technology to revive extinct species have ...

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct forerunner. The dire wolf, Aenocyon dirus, which was the inspiration for the fearsome canine featured in the HBO TV ...

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.

Ethicists and conservationists appear to be divided on attempts to bring back extinct species – and whether the efforts matter. A company owned by a wealthy businessman re-creates an extinct ...

The company recently announced the creation of three dire wolves, a canine species that hasn't roamed the Earth in more than 12,000 years, in the privately held company's continued efforts to ...

5 extinct species we hope science never brings back by: Russell Falcon. Posted: Apr 8, 2025 / 01:10 PM CDT. Updated: Apr 8, 2025 / 01:10 PM CDT. by: Russell Falcon.

There’s No ‘Undo’ Button for Extinct Species When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy.

Colossal Biosciences has brought back the now-formerly-extinct dire wolf ... the Texas-based company found a way to bring back the species with their adolescent male pups named Romulus and ...

"All you can do now is make something look superficially like something else"— not fully revive extinct species, said Vincent Lynch, a biologist at the University at Buffalo who was not involved ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 13,000 years ago. Scientists believe incoming dog-like species and wolves may have out-competed dire wolves, or spread diseases that hurt them, according to National ...