Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for ...

After more than 12,000 years, dire wolves are back. On April 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of three healthy dire wolf pups, marking the world’s first successful de-extinction of a ...

Colossal Biosciences has put itself on the map with its ambitions to take on de-extinction, not only to bring back the woolly mammoth, but also to champion important strides in conservation. As a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No-go on the jet packs and the flying cars. But the business of de-extinction? That’s very much happening. In April, the ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...

People can debate for days, weeks and years whether dragons ever existed, but there are some fantastical creatures we know to have been real. The dire wolf, made famous as the symbol of House Stark in ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...

In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal Biosciences claimed to have de-extincted the dire wolf. Dire wolves, which ...

It has taken no end of imagination for Sir Peter Jackson, the Academy Award winning—and, not incidentally, knighted—director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, to produce his entire body of ...