Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and ...

Remus, a dire wolf Colossal Biosciences created and is raising Extinction ... The company announced in March it had genetically engineered mice with the shaggy, golden-brown coat of the woolly mammoth ...

Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of "dire wolf" pups, claiming a rebirth of the extinct species. However, the company's chief scientist clarified that these pups are actually gray wolves ...

Here’s what Catholics should know about the dire wolves and what the Church might have to say about “resurrecting” extinct species of animals.

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show?

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 ...

Dire wolf DNA that has been extracted from Pleistocene fossil material: a recent peer-reviewed paper analyzed the fragmentary nuclear genome of dire wolves compared to living canids (see Perri et ...

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.

Meet the dire wolf: The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast But there's still plenty of questions being asked of Colossal. Here's a few.

Colossal’s scientists then took cells from a gray wolf—with whom the dire wolf shares 99.5 percent of its DNA—and used CRISPR to edit the genes to be more like a dire wolf.

According to Colossal the grey wolf shares 99.5 per cent of the same DNA as the dire wolf. But you can't clone an animal without living tissue.