By editing the DNA of existing gray wolf cells to include some traits from long-extinct dire wolves (like their white hair and large size) and using them to create viable embryos with cloning ...

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 ...

A US company this week said it had successfully bred three dire wolves, even though the species has been extinct for thousands of years. Colossal Biosciences said it tweaked the DNA of a modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences Inc., a Dallas-based biotech firm with a $10 billion valuation, has announced a new breakthrough in its audacious mission to resurrect extinct animals. The company said on ...