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 ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create three dire wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi. Dire wolf pups born 12,500 years after extinction, company says ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

The dire wolf is back—sort of. Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences used DNA from dire wolf fossils and surrogate dogs to produce three wolf pups. But University at Buffalo biologist Vincent Lynch ...

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 modern grey wolves share 99.5% of ...

The Dire Wolf’s Hollywood DNA. The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin.

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.