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

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 ...

A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all with ...

Jerry Garcia in 1982. "Dire Wolf" stayed in the Grateful Dead's setlists from 1969 onward. - Credit: Clayton Call/Redferns/Getty Images OK, let’s face it. You heard the news about the return of ...

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

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 ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead.. Earlier this week, the ...

For its dire wolf project, Colossal began with the aforementioned 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from Idaho.

Unlike the prehistoric dire wolf, these new creatures will not roam the outdoors nor hunt for prey. They will live on a 2,000-acre preserve enclosed by a 10-foot-tall, zoo-graded fence.

They vanished more than 10,000 years ago. But now, a genetic company claims it has successfully revived a dire wolf by sequencing the species’ DNA from ancient fossils. Colossal Biosciences, the ...

On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years ...