On October 1, 2024, two dire wolf pups—predators that roamed America over 10,000 years ago—were brought back to life using ancient DNA extracted from fossilized remains. A special technology allowed ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Monday, the biotechnology company ...

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 Dallas-based ...

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 ...

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 Biosciences ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences made waves this week with a headline-grabbing announcement: The dire wolf is back. The startup, which calls itself the “de-extinction company,” announced Monday the ...

On Monday, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully created three dire wolf puppies The biotechnology and genetic engineering company received a $10.2 billion valuation, placing it in ...

US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least that’s what the company would like you to believe. Social media is abuzz with viral videos, memes, and images of ...

"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus Colossal Sciences A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire ...

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 genes ...