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Colossal Biosciences announced in April that it had created dire-wolf-like creatures. This year, we could hear the wolves’ ...
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire ...
Projects, by both Colossal and other groups, are underway around the world to help endangered species develop disease resistance or evolve to tolerate a warmer world. Other projects use gene editing ...
Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...
Colossal’s “dire wolves” aren’t monsters, miracles, or evolutionary glitches. They’re gray wolves that are still very much ...
The dire wolf is back—sort of. Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences used DNA from dire wolf fossils and surrogate dogs to ...
Colossal Biosciences has successfully brought back the dire wolf, a species that disappeared from Earth approximately 13,000 ...
A biotech company used DNA from thousands of years ago to clone three wolf pups that resemble the extinct dire wolf.
Three names that will forever be remembered in the annals of science: Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—the world’s first ...
"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...
Colossal Biosciences raises hype over the return of a lost species, but some scientists dispute this and their overall agenda ...
For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately ...