Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf ...

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

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

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

The ability to edit multiple genes in living, viable animals is a remarkable feat, but tweaking a few genes in modern gray ...

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

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

You can call them proxy dire wolves or Colossal dire wolves. Or, you can call them gray wolves with 20 edits that recreate functional dire wolves in the ecosystems of today,” Colossal’s chief ...

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

Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...