In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...

For the first time in thousands of years, dire wolves are alive – or at least a close approximation to them – as scientists claim to have achieved the world's first successful animal de-extinction.

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus Colossal Sciences A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire ...

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 ...

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 ...