Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf ...

For a long time, researchers thought that modern gray wolves were their closest relatives based on overall skeletal similarity. But a 2021 study of dire wolf DNA found that dire wolves emerged ...

Colossal's so-called dire wolf is not a resurrected species. It's a genetically modified gray wolf. Its creation is a ...

With this breakthrough, humans are tampering with evolution beyond its historical use of artificial selection, or breeding ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

The ability to edit multiple genes in living, viable animals is a remarkable feat, but tweaking a few genes in modern gray ...

The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

The cover of Time Magazine’s May edition features a striking image of a large, white wolf. Above it, the word “extinct” in ...

Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...