Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, that have doubled in size over the past 6 months ...

The DNA provided the dire wolf genome, but that’s not enough, they also needed to know which genes were important. To find out, researchers compared the dire wolf genome with those of other canids, ...

Here is a detailed guide to defeat the Dire Wolf in Dig, including all the best shovels and charms you can use in the boss battle.

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 ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company founded in Dallas in 2021 with the goal of “de-extincting” animals, announced it had brought back the dire wolf, a creature last seen in ...

That’s no longer just the plot of a 1990s science fiction movie. Colossal Biosciences announcement that it had used the DNA of an extinct ice age-era dire wolf to breed new, live wolves has ...

Dire wolf DNA that has been extracted from Pleistocene fossil material: a recent peer-reviewed paper analyzed the fragmentary nuclear genome of dire wolves compared to living canids (see Perri et ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf.

In the case of the dire wolf project, Colossal scientists were working from two fossils, a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull. The DNA provided the dire wolf genome, ...