Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

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.

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

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 ...

Colossal also announced that it had bred four cloned red wolves ... made 20 edits to the gray wolf genome — including 15 edits in 14 genes that were the "exact extinct variants" — to create ...

Since then, pigs, cats, deer, horses, mice, goats, gray ... the red wolf—principally by their phenotype, or appearance. Plenty of wolves that did not fit the right size or color for the red ...

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 ...

Using the genetic data, researchers could confirm the gray wolf as the closest living relative of the dire wolf – they share 99.5% of their DNA code. One of the Red Wolves born by Colossal ...