Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct for 13,000 years.

Colossal scientists learned about specific traits that dire wolves possessed by examining ancient DNA from fossils.

Colossal though said the dire wolf was now "the world's first de-extincted animal". It has publicised its efforts to use similar cutting edge genetic techniques in its plan to bring back extinct ...