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

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

Colossal Biosciences revealed recently it had born three pups using the ancient DNA of the dire wolf, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf may sound like a conservation breakthrough, but it risks distracting us from the protection of our current living species. This approach turns biodiversity ...

To achieve this, the company aims to revive several extinct species ... like the dire wolf or woolly mammoth, carries significant ecological risks. The environmental conditions, plant communities ...

Rather than resurrect extinct species, cloning technology could save those at risk of dying out ... “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell the real secret to saving ...

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 ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf may sound like a conservation breakthrough, but it risks distracting us from the protection of our current living species. Picture: Picture: Colossal Biosciences ...

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

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 ...