Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals that are not the same as their ancestors and are actually hybrid animals.

Scientists have shocked the world by bringing back the extinct dire wolf species which ... comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat and a golden coat and ...

A number of experts say that bringing back extinct animals will not solve any conservation problems and that efforts would be better spent trying to find ways to save current critically endangered ...

This is often cited as the first example of de-extinction. However, the only preserved tissue was from one female animal, meaning it could not have been used to bring back a viable population.

The company recently announced the creation of three dire wolves, a canine species that hasn't roamed the Earth in more than 12,000 years, in the privately held company's continued efforts to ...

How did they manage to bring the dire wolf back to life? Time magazine reports that based on clever genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA (from fossils between 11,500 and 72,000 years old ...

Colossal Biosciences Inc., which has a $10 billion valuation, touts its one-of-a-kind gene editing technology that aims at rebuilding the DNA of now-extinct animals. The company said their work is ...