Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

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Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

announced earlier this month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a ...

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

The resurrection of the dire wolf by Colossal Biosciences represents a culmination of multiple cutting-edge technologies working in concert. This achievement—bringing back an animal extinct for over ...

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 ...

The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had “resurrected” a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than ...