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 ...

For a long time, researchers thought that modern gray wolves were their closest relatives based on overall skeletal similarity. But a 2021 study of dire wolf DNA found that dire wolves emerged ...

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 ...

They're most certainly not dire wolves in whole genetic cloth, because they've got other stuff in the mix, including from ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...