The revived dire wolves are growing, as Colossal Biosciences has shared an update on the three pups that were brought back ...

Scientists recently revealed that they have "brought back" extinct dire wolves thanks to genetic engineering — but experts say the newly created animals are only like dire wolves in appearance.

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

That same blood cloning process which resulted in the Colossal dire wolves has wider applications for other threatened animals, like the critically endangered red wolf.

The dire wolf is back. Or is it? Colossal defends its science amid critics No question, the dire wolves born by Colossal Biosciences are super-cute and growing into stately animals. But some ...

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 ...

Is the Once-Extinct Dire Wolf Really Back, or Did Some of the Reporting Go Too Far? The resulting media frenzy provides a fascinating case study of science journalism.

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

Jerry Garcia in 1982. "Dire Wolf" stayed in the Grateful Dead's setlists from 1969 onward. - Credit: Clayton Call/Redferns/Getty Images OK, let’s face it. You heard the news about the return of ...

Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create three dire wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi.

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy.