To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning ...

Dire wolves, extinct for over 10,000 years, are back thanks to Colossal Biosciences. Using ancient DNA and CRISPR gene editing, scientists successfully re-engineered gray wolves to possess the ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

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 ...

“Extinction is still forever,” Paleogeneticist Dr Nic Rawlence from Otago University in New Zealand reacted to the ‘de-extinction’ of the Game of Thrones-famous dire wolf. Texas-based ...

Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...

When we heard scientists had literally brought back the Dire Wolf from extinction, we thought, "Who would the Miami Dolphins bring back?" The question seemed absurd until hundreds and hundreds of ...

The Dire Wolf, a species that went extinct nearly 12,00 years ago, was recently brought back to life by scientists at the US-based Colossal Biosciences. In 1936, the big carnivorous marsupial ...

Or has it? Colossal Biosciences, the company behind so-called "de-extinction tech," made headlines after appearing on the cover of Time magazine on Monday having claimed to have brought back dire ...

The scientists at a company called Colossal Biosciences have performed a miracle, or in other words – de-extinction – a process which revives an extinct species. What ‘Game of Thrones’ mad ...