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 ...

Bringing it back is a groundbreaking move and one whose ... if it looks like a dire wolf and it acts like a dire wolf, I’m gonna call it a dire wolf.” Second, it means that extinction ...

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 ...

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

Corey Bradshaw, a professor of global ecology at Flinders University in Australia, poured cold water on the claims that the company had brought the dire wolf back from extinction. "So yes ...

It suddenly seemed possible to bring back species that had died out ... The pups were whining and crying. “I’m holding the first dire-wolf cubs in twelve thousand years,” James pronounced ...

The dire wolf, which vanished over 10,000 years ago, has become the first example of a species brought back from extinction. Keep reading to discover how scientists achieved this groundbreaking ...

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.

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

“[If] it looks like a dire wolf and acts like a dire wolf, I’m going to call it a dire wolf ... done at Colossal has not brought a species back from extinction,” Jacquelyn Gill, a ...

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, according to Texas-based biotech firm Colossal ...