Colossal Biosciences says the dire wolves it introduced in 2025 as part of the company's de-extinction efforts have reached a major milestone: they're now officially hunting as a pack. According to a ...

The Company Trying to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Already Brought Back the Dire Wolf. The Real Story Is What It Built Along ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct.

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ...

Anyone weary of the fire hose of dire news from the White House might have found respite in an uplifting story emanating from Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetics startup, early this month: ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

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On the left is a headshot photo of Adolf Hitler. On the right is an outdoor photo of a genetically modified wolf with white fur standing in front of some logs. Adolf Hitler (left) and a wolf that was ...

Romulus and Remus, the two male dire wolves born through genetic engineering, turned a year old on October 1, 2025. The dire wolves, created by Colossal Biosciences, are the first of their kind in ...