Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and died across the Americas. They were heavier than today’s gray wolves, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire wolves Romulus and Remus next to each other in the snow at five months old. The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf. A slow clap from ...

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm poses with one of the wolves his company edited with dire-wolf genes.Colossal Biosciences The beginnings of a real-life "Jurassic Park" are playing out in a ...

The skull of a dire wolf, an Ice Age apex predator that once roamed the Americas more than 10,000 years ago, is surfacing on the auction block. The specimen is part of Heritage Auctions’s Nature and ...

The genetic engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, first announced the arrival of the dire wolves in April Colossal Biosciences shared footage from the first face-to-face meeting between its three ...

The de-extinction of the dire wolf began with a tooth from Ohio. According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences ...

(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.

Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out. “This is Remus,” the ...