Or, maybe, it's just a grey wolf with a few tweaks. American biotech company Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead ...

It’s part of the effort to expand recovery for the native endangered Mexican gray wolf population. “Here at the Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden area, we’re building a new five-acre home ...

Then they used CRISPR, a gene-editing technology, to genetically modify cells from a living gray wolf. Usually, cloning relies on tissue samples, but Colossal was able to use these modified cells ...

The firm used the application of gene-editing to edit the genetic code of a living gray wolf to basically bring back the extinct dire wolf species. This makes the dire wolf of today the first de ...

Outside experts are more cautious, describing the pups as genetically modified grey wolves because the process used to create them involved editing the genes of that species to add dire wolf traits.

Dire wolves were (or should we now say ‘are’?) bigger and stockier than their grey wolf relatives (Picture: Metro) They will keep living there as the pack grows, while scientists study their ...

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As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder. George R.R. Martin himself, who popularized the dire wolf as Jon Snow ...

“A grey wolf is the closest living relative of a dire wolf - they're genetically really similar - so we targeted DNA sequences that lead to dire wolf traits and then edited grey wolf cells.

From there, Colossal elected to use a close relative of the dire wolf as the base. "We've taken a gray wolf genome, a gray wolf cell. which is already genetically 99.5% identical to dire wolves ...

The imposing beasts, which have lighter-coloured coats and far thicker fur than their grey wolf cousins, featured in TV fantasy series Game Of Thrones. Indeed, a third wolf born three months ago ...