The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

Dire wolves roamed the American midcontinent during the Ice Age and the oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil is 250,000 years old from Black Hills, South Dakota, according to Colossal Biosciences.

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then.

By Riley Black. April 10, 2025 5:45 AM. ... When dire wolves went extinct about 10,000 years ago, gray wolves became more numerous and expanded to fill the niches dire wolves left open.

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences shared an update on the dire wolves they brought back from extinction; three pups, Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, that have doubled in size over the past 6 months ...

Their results bolstered previous research indicating that the dire wolf lineage diverged early, before the split between black-backed jackals and other wolf-like canids, about 4.5 million years ...

Dire wolves were originally thought to have more likely been relatives of jackals. But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a ...

Dire wolves aren’t closely related to modern canids like wolves or dogs — they’re a distinct lineage. Unlike gray wolves, which likely evolved in Eurasia, dire wolves were a New World species.

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...