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 dire wolf is back, brought bounding into the 21st ...

Colossal Biosciences revealed recently it had born three pups using the ancient DNA of the dire wolf, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

Colossal has been working on bringing back long-extinct species since ... the DNA of their descendant, the gray wolf. A cloning procedure was then applied to turn the cells into three animals ...