(CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

Ever since the announcement of the supposed de-extinction of the dire wolf after being gone for 12,500 years, conversations surrounding the use of cloning technology to revive extinct species have ...

Cloning celebrity dogs and resurrecting dire wolves may seem like just the latest in weird tech bro obsessions. But what’s in ...

Colossal Biosciences claims it has revived an extinct species, but scientists outside the company are skeptical. Andrew Zuckerman/Colossal Biosciences Somewhere in the northern US, drones fly over a 2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us learned about extinction in high school biology, but did you know that de-extinction is real, too? The dire wolf, which ...

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 ...