The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf. A slow clap from ...

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, the ...

Colossal Biosciences —the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth and other animals that have long been extinct — used ancient DNA to birth three dire wolves, an animal ...

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 Dallas-headquartered biotech company revealed in April 2025 that two separate dire wolf litters had been born: The two ...

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...

A one-month-old dire wolf pup. (Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences) Researchers from a private biosciences company called Colossal say they’ve extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old fossil to bring the ...

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out. “This is Remus,” the ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

This article was originally published by The Conversation. Read the original article. Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine ...