The dire wolf genome likely differs from that of the gray wolf in millions or tens of millions of ways. Editing 14 genes is interesting, but it’s not a reconstruction or de-extinction.

While a genetics company saw success with a dire wolf revival, can it pull off the Colossal feat of de-extinction in other ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company founded in Dallas in 2021 with the goal of “de-extincting” animals, announced it had brought back the dire wolf, a creature last seen in ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

Scientists, journalists, and critics were quick to scrutinize Colossal’s claims that the creature they had created was truly a dire wolf — i.e. the first truly “de-extincted” species.

The dire wolf also came up at an April 9 meeting of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources that considered amendments to a proposed law that would strip federal protections from western ...

Dire wolf meet-up: Watch Colossal's female wolf frolic with older brothers Colossal Biosciences created three dire wolves using genetic engineering. Now that the wolves have gotten older – the ...