Other outward similarities remain, including a wolf-like head and body shape. Beyond implications for understanding dire wolf origin and extinction events, the findings point to the independent ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf ... Skoglund, head of the Ancient ...

The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had “resurrected” a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than ...

Now, the Trump administration is citing the case of the dire wolf as it moves to reduce federal ... and Democratic Leader Sherry Williams (D-Crest Hill) participate in the County Board meeting ...

The Dallas-based biotech firm has reveled in compliments and been hit with criticism over the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf. And there's been a lot of questions, too. The Colossal team posted a ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

This is an adapted excerpt from the April 12 episode of "Velshi." It's been over 10,000 years since a dire wolf has roamed the Earth. But now, according to scientists for a genetics company called ...

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 ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

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 ...

“It’s not a dire wolf. It’s misleading to call it that,” says Vincent Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo. “I can't explain how pissed off it made me, because ...

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out.