The scientists then identified gene variants specific to dire wolves and discovered that these wolves had a white coat color and long ... living relative, the gray wolf, resulting in 20 discrete ...

Colossal Biosciences' chief scientist has clarified that its "dire wolves" are just genetically modified gray wolves ...

Additionally, Colossal has birthed two litters of cloned red wolves ... dire wolf specific variants in essential pigmentation genes revealing that dire wolves had a white coat color – a fact ...

The company also reported the birth of cloned red wolves, currently the most endangered wolf ... coat color, and hair length. Of these edits, 15 were based on extinct gene variants identified ...

Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus ... of existing cells taken from a gray wolf. They made 20 edits in total, 15 of which were intended to make genes resemble the variants found in their dire wolf ...

Our analyses show that dire wolves interbred extensively with the lineage that ultimately evolved into gray wolves ... also produced two litters of Red Wolf puppies; the Red Wolf is an endangered ...

To achieve its goal, the company essentially created a hybrid genome using CRISPR technology to cut away certain gray wolf gene variants and ... litters of cloned red wolves, the most critically ...

Now, in a coordinated PR blitz, the company is claiming that clones of gray wolves ... the variant found in the dire wolf genome. A similar thing was done to achieve the light coat color.