In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal ...

On Apr. 7, the billion-dollar biotech firm Colossal announced the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf, a canine species that vanished in the Late Pleistocene (approximately 13,000 years ago).

A photograph of Asha from February 2023 shows her in a “capture box” at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. This was the second time the endangered Mexican wolf ...

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 ...

Wolf conservation in the European Union has become a political issue instead of a scientific one, leading to ineffective ...

A red wolf named Poco rests in its habitat at Lincoln Park Zoo on May 6, 2025. Black-crowned night herons build their nests above the habitat for protection from predators. (John J. Kim/Chicago ...