The company decided on the gray wolf since it appeared closely related to the dire wolf, with the two species sharing 99.5% of its DNA, Colossal said in a press release.

Dire wolf returns from extinction? Company reveals 'magic' it's using to bring back species In 'Game of Thrones,' the dire wolf is the sigil, or mascot, of House Stark.

Could the huge, ancient wolf return to the wild? 'Only nature can produce the genetic diversity. It takes a large population of any organism to have healthy genetic diversity.' ...

Colossal has no plans to release its dire wolves into the wild, said Beth Shapiro, the company's chief science officer. They live in an undisclosed location on a 2,000 acre protected ecological ...

The dire wolf isn’t the only animal that Colossal, which was founded in 2021 and currently employs 130 scientists, wants to bring back. Also on their de-extinction wish list is the woolly ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.

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 dire wolf is a canine species that has been extinct for around 10,000 years, having lived up to 250,000 years ago. Living in the Americas, they are thought to have "died out as their prey did ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.

To make the pups, scientists extracted DNA from two prehistoric dire wolf fossils: a 13,000-year-old tooth discovered in Sheridan Pit, Ohio, and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from American ...

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell the real secret to saving threatened species. And the answer isn ...