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

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

How might dire wolves and gray wolves co-exist ... ESA-listed species have not recovered sufficiently to be “delisted,” ...

Why am I mentioning this when writing an opinion piece on the Dire wolf? Well, it has been claimed, though admittedly not by ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

Colossal's so-called dire wolf is not a ... not only exploited endangered species for profit, but also triggered outbreaks of infectious disease, demonstrating the risks that unchecked cloning ...

One of the most challenging aspects of de-extinction is predicting how ancient genes will express in a modern organism. Colossal developed sophisticated computational models to predict the phenotypic ...

Some people will tell you that the dire wolves are back ... adding in genes exactly as they existed in extinct species. "Every edit carries some risk," Shapiro said. "We did AI modeling of ...

"We're trying to focus on species that can have cascading effects on an ecosystem ... along on this journey". Dire wolves and woolly mammoths were driven extinct by the complex forces of a ...