The recent announcement of the resurrection of the dire wolf generated considerable global media attention and widespread ...

A museum specimen of the extinct huia. Wikimedia Commons/Auckland Museum collection , CC BY-SA The recent announcement of the ...

In Aotearoa New Zealand, hapori Maori (tribal groups) are the kaitiaki (guardians) of many threatened taonga (treasured) ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences had the world howling about dire wolves. But for ethicists, the question is our ...

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...

One of the most challenging aspects of de-extinction is predicting how ancient genes will express in a modern organism. Colossal developed sophisticated computational models to predict the phenotypic ...