The real dire wolf, by the way, was never just a big gray wolf. A 2021 genetic study confirmed that dire wolves weren’t even close relatives. They diverged from the wolf family tree nearly six ...

In order to conduct this so-called de-extinction event, scientists at Colossal extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth and a 72,000-year-old ear bone, and sequenced the genome.

Ben Lamm, the billionaire founder of Colossal Labs, and Sophie Turner spoke about his company’s efforts in reviving the long-extinct dire wolf during a panel at SXSW’s first London outpost ...

In an interview with New Scientist, Colossal Biosciences' chief scientist has clarified that its "dire wolves" are just genetically modified gray wolves following a backlash to the "de-extinction ...

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 ...

Dire wolves, with reddish fur, facing off against gray wolves. This image, made by artist Mauricio Anton in 2020, was done in consultation with researchers, who think it’s likely the animals had ...

The paper details how the researchers spent more than a year to "decode the dire wolf’s evolutionary history," Colossal said in a statement. "We generated high-quality ancient genomes from dire ...

Najin and Fatu, the two remaining northern white rhinos, on March 20, 2018 at the ol-Pejeta conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya. News of the recovery of an extinct species in the form of howling, ivory ...

Dire wolves have obviously not adapted to this changing world, and Downey noted that it was “upsetting” the de-extinct wolves were created without a place in the American landscape for them.

Hollywood helped Colossal Biosciences market its dire wolf revival project, with investors including Peter Jackson, George R.R. Martin and the Hemsworths.

In 4th Edition D&D, dire wolves got a bunch of bony spikes in the art. Also, they became even deadlier at biting targets they knocked down. They went from making trip attacks as part of their regular ...

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. Three ...