One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week ...

Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits ...

A US company claims to have brought an extinct species of wolf back from extinction. The dire wolf last roamed the American ...

But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a mix of South American canids (the family of mammals such as wolfs and dogs ...

Now, in a coordinated PR blitz, the company is claiming that clones of gray wolves with lightly edited genomes have essentially brought the dire wolf back. (Both Time and The New Yorker were given ...

How Was the Dire Wolf Brought Back? Dire wolves, which originate from the Americas, went extinct between 12,000–13,000 years ago, but have supposedly now been reborn via biotechnology.

The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists say there are ethical concerns.

The dire wolf, a species that went extinct some 12,500 years ago but was made famous by the Game of Thrones series, has been brought back to life ... “There’s no secret that across the ...