Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and ...

Beth Shapiro, chief science officer at Colossal and University of Georgia alumna, helped bring the species back to life ...

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, the most conspicuous of the animals to emerge from Colossal’s labs, will surely not be the last. Write to Jeffrey Kluger at jeffrey.kluger@time.com.

This is Remus at 15 days old. Colossal Biosciences have birthed three wolves using the ancient DNA of dire wolves, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago. Here Romulus is seen at five months old.

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SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024.

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now ...

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, the most conspicuous of the animals to emerge from Colossal’s labs, will surely not be the last. Write to Jeffrey Kluger at jeffrey.kluger@time.com.