Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

That’s no longer just the plot of a 1990s science fiction movie. Colossal Biosciences announcement that it had used the DNA of an extinct ice age-era dire wolf to breed new, live wolves has ...

The DNA provided the dire wolf genome, but that’s not enough, they also needed to know which genes were important. To find out, researchers compared the dire wolf genome with those of other canids, ...

Here is a detailed guide to defeat the Dire Wolf in Dig, including all the best shovels and charms you can use in the boss battle.

In case you haven’t already read a dozen stories about this, here are some of the most salient details: Scientists at Colossal retrieved DNA from an approximately 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company founded in Dallas in 2021 with the goal of “de-extincting” animals, announced it had brought back the dire wolf, a creature last seen in ...

N ature 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 ...

Dire wolf DNA that has been extracted from Pleistocene fossil material: a recent peer-reviewed paper analyzed the fragmentary nuclear genome of dire wolves compared to living canids (see Perri et ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf.

Colossal Biosciences has brought back the prehistoric dire wolf, of Game of Thrones fame, with help from Peter Jackson. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dire Wolves Return in De-Extinction Breakthrough ...

In the case of the dire wolf project, Colossal scientists were working from two fossils, a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull. The DNA provided the dire wolf genome, ...