As the three dire wolf pups mature in their secure preserve, they embody the potential for revolutionary approaches to species protection and ecosystem restoration. The implications for endangered ...

Last year, she made history when she brought the dire wolf back from extinction. On October 1, 2024, the first two dire wolf pups, Romulus and Remus, were born; on January 31, ...

Ben Lamm, the billionaire founder of Colossal Labs, and Sophie Turner spoke about his company’s efforts in reviving the long-extinct dire wolf during a panel at SXSW’s first London outpost ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

Jackson has had some significant input in how Colossal tells its stories. Lamm says that just before the dire wolf announcement, Jackson had a suggestion: “He told me, ‘When you announce this ...

Colossal's de-extincted 'dire wolf' isn't a dire wolf and it has not been de-extincted, experts say. Latest in Land Mammals. Binturong: The bearcat that smells like hot buttered popcorn.

The first howl of a dire wolf in 10,000 years moved Peter Jackson to tears, but for scientists, these vocalizations represent something even more profound: direct evidence that genetic engineering can ...

If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question. Elay Shech, Auburn University. Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM UTC.

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