Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. Colossal ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A massive breakthrough was announced this week by 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 ...

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 ...

“The dire wolf’s story is a banner of possibility.” Colossal Biosciences achieved the unthinkable in October 2024 with the birth of Romulus and Remus, dire wolves lost to extinction more than 10,000 ...

You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts. They were real Ice Age predators, heavy-headed hunters that prowled the open landscapes of the Americas long before ...