The dire wolf is back—sort of. Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences used DNA from dire wolf fossils and surrogate dogs to ...

“Let’s make sure that they’re not going extinct,” Downey urged. open image in gallery Distinctive traits of the dire wolf include light thick fur and muscular jaws, while they are also ...

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!

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead ... he’s frequently asked if Colossal would ever create mythical or fictional beings, including at ...

In early April, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences claimed they had resurrected the long-extinct Ice Age dire wolf using gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on gray wolf genes. These edited ...

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell ... it had cloned four red wolf pups from three living adult ...

Yet last week, Time proclaimed their second coming with a white wolf on its cover ... Nat Geo Image Collection Despite their rich fossil record, exactly where dire wolves fit in the canid or ...

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.

Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

This finding suggests that the dire wolf arose through interbreeding between distantly related lineages approximately 4 to 5 million years ago. Interbreeding between species to create an entirely ...