Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire ...

Colossal Biosciences has successfully bred three dire wolf pups, named Remus, Romulus, and Khaleesi, using ancient DNA, cloning, and gene-editing technology. This groundbreaking achievement marks ...

Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column and has covered de-extinction for more than a decade.

The Game of Thrones series popularized the dire wolf as the emblem of the noble and doomed House Stark, and now Colossal claims to have brought it—or at least something that looks like a dire ...

The first time one hears that scientists have brought back the dire wolf can be a little surreal. While this apex predator of the Ice Age, a North American legend hailing from the Pleistocene ...

Even so, the reed beds remain busy with nesting activity. Resident species like the pheasant-tailed jacana, bronze-winged jacana, Eurasian moorhen, and grey-headed swamphen rely on these patches ...

On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

For the first time ever, scientists say they have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the world thousands of years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences, a company based ...

The trailer for FromSoftware's upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, features an enigmatic winged rat creature at the very end. The Duskbloods director Hidetaka Miyazaki has ...

The answer, according to the Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, is a six-month-old dire wolf, a canine species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. But scientists have a different name ...