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The Dire Wolf, once a mythical figure thanks to Game of Thrones, is experiencing a major revival, thanks to Colossal Biosciences, the ambitious biotech company working on de-extincting species ...

announced earlier this month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf.

In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited ...

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell ... it had cloned four red wolf pups from three living adult ...

The Dallas-based biotech firm has reveled in compliments and been hit with criticism over the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf. And there's been a lot of questions, too. The Colossal team posted a ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

This is an adapted excerpt from the April 12 episode of "Velshi." It's been over 10,000 years since a dire wolf has roamed the Earth. But now, according to scientists for a genetics company called ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies.” But many scientists are crying foul. What Colossal has done, they point ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in Wyandot County, adjacent to Crawford County, was one of two pieces of dire wolf ...