The revived dire wolves are growing, as Colossal Biosciences has shared an update on the three pups that were brought back ...

A US company claims to have brought an extinct species of wolf back from extinction. The dire wolf last roamed the American ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

To build the dire wolves, scientists at Colossal, led by chief science officer Beth Shapiro, extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone and fed it into a ...

The oldest confirmed dire wolf fossil, from Black Hills, South Dakota, is around 250,000 years old. The animals went extinct around 13,000 years ago, according to researchers at Colossal Biosciences.

The nonprofit is working on reviving populations of the black-footed ferret and passenger pigeon, ... That doesn't appear to have been the case with the dire wolf constructs, ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now ...