In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

A Dallas-based startup says it has produced three “de-extinct” dire wolf pups using gene-editing technology — and the dodo and woolly mammoth are next. But the gap between the company’s marketing and ...

A biotech company says CRISPR could revive extinct animals like the dodo and mammoth — but many scientists remain skeptical.

The push to revive extinct animals is accelerating, but scientists disagree about whether gene-edited species count as true "de-extinction." ...

A Dallas-based biotech company called Colossal Biosciences says it has produced “de-extinct” dire wolf pups using gene-editing technology, but critics argue the animals are genetically modified gray ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

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 ...

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

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and died across the Americas. They were heavier than today’s gray wolves, ...

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, a biotech company, is using gene-editing technology to resurrect extinct species like the dodo and the woolly mammoth.

When I returned to Colossal’s new headquarters in Dallas last week for its official grand opening, the first thing I noticed was the lobby. While this large open space looked complete before, ...