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Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry
Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from ...
Is this really a dire wolf? Here’s how the ‘de-extinct’ pups compare to the real thing.
The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...
The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast
A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric ...
A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves ...
The dire wolf, which went extinct 12,500 years ago, revived by biotech company
Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create three dire wolf pups named Romulus, Remus ...
Should we be bringing back extinct species? Ethical concerns raised after dire wolf allegedly resurrected
The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists ...
The return of the dire wolf after 10,000 years of extinction
The dire wolf is a canine species that has been extinct for around 10,000 years, having lived up to 250,000 years ago. Living ...
Scientists say they revived dire wolf through biotech company's de-extinction process
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, ...
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The Dire Wolf Is Officially Back From Extinction—Here’s How
Most of us learned about extinction in high school biology, but did you know that de-extinction is real, too? The dire wolf, ...
Scientists genetically engineer wolves with features like extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences, a company that aims to “de-extinct” animals, announced on Monday that its scientists have successfully ...
Supposed dire wolf 'de-extinction' is part cool science, part flashy marketing
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. Three pups ...