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As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology ...

This week, Pennsylvania State University paleontologist Chris Widga and colleagues reported on new records of dire wolves from Iowa and Arkansas. “In the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

Whatever species they are, what is true is that Colossal has created novel animals for whom humans are now morally accountable — a responsibility that the nascent field of de-extinction ...

Resources poured into de-extinction could arguably be better spent preserving habitats, restoring degraded ecosystems, and preventing modern extinctions. Colossal’s dire wolf project is not a ...

Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas), chair of the House Natural ... can approve projects even if they result in the extinction of a species. The panel, officially called the Endangered Species Committee ...

as part of Colossal’s so-called de-extinction project, which is also working to bring back the woolly mammoth through gene editing. “Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000 ...

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 ...

First, scientists dug up some old bones. Fossils, actually — real direwolf teeth and skulls buried in the earth for 13,000 to 72,000 years. These bones still had tiny fragments of DNA inside ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...