For the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf is echoing once more—this time, from within a secretive ...

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With ...

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

Brent: Good afternoon and welcome back to the Beat, y'all! For 10K years or so, few people knew much about dire wolves besides that they went extinct. I only vaguely knew about them via "Game of ...

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences made waves this week with a headline-grabbing announcement: The dire wolf is back. The startup, which calls itself the “de-extinction company,” announced Monday the ...

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again. A high-profile de‑extinction company says it has produced pups modeled on ...

What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show? By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...

Adriana Perez’s recent article, “The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn” (April 20), highlights an unproductive attempt to shift conservation ...

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 ...