Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

The resurrection of the dire wolf by Colossal Biosciences marks a fascinating intersection of popular culture and ...

The ability to edit multiple genes in living, viable animals is a remarkable feat, but tweaking a few genes in modern gray wolves (out of 19,000 or so) does not count as “bringing back” an extinct ...

Yet last week, Time proclaimed their second coming with a white wolf on its cover. An illustration shows what a North American habitat with ancient dire wolves and Colombian mammoths might have ...

The Dallas-based biotech firm has reveled in compliments and been hit with criticism over the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf. And there's been a lot of questions, too. The Colossal team posted a ...

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.

In case you haven’t already read a dozen stories about this, here are some of the most salient details: Scientists at Colossal retrieved DNA from an approximately 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth ...

Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two fluffy, snow-white ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago ... ABC News' Tommy Brooksbank, Jon Schlosberg and Mireya Villarreal contributed to this report.

“It’s not a dire wolf. It’s misleading to call it that,” says Vincent Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo. “I can't explain how pissed off it made me, because ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal ...