Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

Some of the scientific groundwork that paved the way for a rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf took place in Pennsylvania. With much fanfare, Texas company Colossal Biosciences announced April 7 ...

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 ...

While we know they’re much bigger than their modern domesticated family members, it can be hard to determine just how big they were – which is why we created this dire wolf size comparison guide. Dire ...

Ancient DNA by comparison is not well-preserved ... By comparing the genomes, Colossal scientists identified the key genes in making a dire wolf (for example for larger size, longer fur) and made 20 ...

Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric ... dire wolves unique —Fiucn their size, musculature, coat characteristics ...

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 Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...