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

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 ...

Colossal had retrieved more than 400 dire wolf skulls from the La Brea Tar Pits in California, along with a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho, ... Getty Images ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company which bills itself as the world’s first de-extinction company, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct ...

Scientists trying to bring back dire wolves 01:24. For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after ...

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

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 ...

Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

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 ...

"Colossal compared the genomes of the dire wolf and the grey wolf, and from about 19,000 genes, they determined that 20 changes in 14 genes gave them a dire wolf." Universal Images Group via Getty ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for ...