More than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. Just last year, the International Union for Conservation ...

With this breakthrough, humans are tampering with evolution beyond its historical use of artificial selection, or breeding ...

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

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

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

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” – ...

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences had the world howling about dire wolves. But for ethicists, the question is our ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

In a controversial announcement in early April, Colossal revealed it had genetically engineered gray wolf DNA to create three "dire wolf" puppies, named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi. | Credit: Colossal ...

National Geographic said the puppies are “better understood as slightly-modified gray wolves rather than true dire wolves.” Nevertheless, some scientists have hailed the announcement as a ...