The recent announcement of the resurrection of the dire wolf generated considerable global media attention and widespread ...

In a preserve at an undisclosed location, two so-called dire wolves roam, eat, and play, blissfully unaware that their existence has ignited a heated scientific and ethical debate. According to ...

Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced the successful birth of three healthy dire wolf pups after ...

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

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

Colossal Biosciences, a US company aiming to “de-extinct” several ... month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos.

De-extinction has been talked about for decades. But Colossal's three dire wolves – which are actually grey wolves that possess 20 edited genes that are meant to give them dire wolf-like ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. But, in early April, it was “resurrected” by Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetic engineering company that performed the supposed rebirth of ...

Much of the debate around this issue has centered on whether gene-edited gray wolves can be accurately called "dire wolves" and if their creation can truly be considered "de-extinction." ...

First, and most important, “de-extinction” is not de-extinction. The company says its claim to have de-extincted the dire wolf is legitimate because its edited pups meet some of the criteria ...

The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome ...