Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

Earlier this year, Colossal Biosciences claimed to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf. The canid species has been extinct for over 10,000 years and features prominently in George R. R. Martin's Song of ...

It's been six months since two not-quite dire wolves were born on Earth around 10,000-12,000 years after the extinction of the species. Now, the two shaggy six-month-olds, Romulus and Remus, along ...

My inbox started filling up with the supposedly groundbreaking news early Tuesday, breathless news articles about a biological breakthrough that will allow a long-extinct giant bird to walk the Earth ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

First the mammoth, now the bluebuck. Colossal Biosciences aims to resurrect a lost African icon. Is science the new ...

The successful birth of Colossal Biosciences' dire wolves represents far more than a scientific milestone—it marks the beginning of a new era in conservation biology. While the resurrection of an Ice ...

Dire wolves became extinct towards the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. They became well known among Game of Thrones fans after George RR Martin, the author, included them in his ...

The company behind the dire wolf comeback hopes to restore Africa's bluebuck, once hunted to extinction by colonialists.