Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

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

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

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

On April 8, 2025, Colossal announced the successful birth of three dire wolf pups—Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—marking the first-ever de-extinction of an animal through advanced genetic ...

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

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

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

Look no further than the Colossal Biosciences company, which lit up the internet in early April with its claim that it had brought the dire wolf back from extinction — nearly 10,000 years after ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the media swallowed the claim whole.

open image in gallery Distinctive traits of the dire wolf include light thick fur and muscular jaws, while they are also much larger than grey wolves (Colossal Biosciences via AP) (AP) Many ...

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 ...