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

In their attempt to recover the dire wolf, Colossal researchers contacted museums and laboratories with dire wolf specimens and got access to a tooth thought to be about 13,000 years old, found in ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

One thing that’s been overshadowed by the dire wolf hubbub is Colossal’s work with endangered red wolves (Canis rufus). In the 1970s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recognized that these ...

PUBLIC WATER. ALL RIGHT. HOW ABOUT THIS? DIRE WOLVES HAVE BEEN EXTINCT FOR MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS, BUT NOW THREE OF THEM ARE ROAMING AROUND SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. WELL, SORT OF. SO THESE YOUNG DIRE ...

The dire wolf, made famous in the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones," has been genetically-engineered by scientists in the U.S. after going extinct around 13,000 years ago.

Colossal used a gray wolf genome – which is 99.5% identical to the dire wolf genomes – and edited the genome to make it even more similar to the extinct dire wolf, altering their size and ...

Colossal Biosciences, which also has plans for the Tasmanian devil and the woolly mammoth, is now focusing on New Zealand's moa ...

Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi do not have dire wolf parents to learn from—and we have absolutely no way of knowing whether they are truly behaving like dire wolves at all.

Game of Thrones' author George RR Martin, who helped helped bring the long-extinct dire wolf back to life after years of extinction has shared his experience of meeting the pups on his new blog ...

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 ...

Meet the dire wolf: The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast. But there's still plenty of questions being asked of Colossal. Here's a few.