In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited ...

No question the science is cool. Colossal extracted and sequenced DNA from a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old dire wolf inner ear bone from Idaho and found that ...

Yet last week, Time proclaimed their second coming with a white wolf on its cover. An illustration shows what a North American habitat with ancient dire wolves and Colombian mammoths might have ...

The Dallas-based biotech firm has reveled in compliments and been hit with criticism over the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf. And there's been a lot of questions, too. The Colossal team posted a ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

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 ...

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than just “Game of Thrones” fans took notice. Researchers at ...

“It’s not a dire wolf. It’s misleading to call it that,” says Vincent Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo. “I can't explain how pissed off it made me, because ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal ...

recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Images and videos of genetically engineered mega wolves roaming a secret ...

US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least ... is abuzz with viral videos, memes, and images of fluffy white wolf puppies. The Game of Thrones references ...

A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US start-up, Colossal Biosciences, said it had used "end-to-end de ...