A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing ...

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

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

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

Dire wolves are no longer just legends of the North. Once feared across the frozen landscapes of the Ice Age – and immortalized in fantasy on “Game of Thrones” – ...

My book of poetry, "For All Our Relations," has just been published by Austin Macauley Publishers. The first part contains a message from the Dalai Lama and an introduction by the late Father Thomas ...

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The edited genetic material must be transferred into an egg cell whose own DNA has been removed, and then that egg cell has to be inserted into a surrogate mother. For its dire wolf project ...

The project’s longevity allowed researchers to document population cycles, genetic changes, and behavioral adaptations that would have been impossible to identify in shorter studies. This long-term ...

It had also managed to identify genetic sequences that code for dire wolf traits such as size, musculature and hair colour, and edit these features into the genome of grey wolves.

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then.

He walked through the wolves' complex history and recovery status, as well as their genetic diversity. “I believe that wolves are in much better shape genetically, because we have this lineage ...