Happy Birthday to the dire wolves. Romulus and Remus, two male dire wolves born through Colossal Biosciences’ genetic engineering advances, have reached their first birthday. The Dallas-headquartered ...

Dire wolves went extinct about 12,000 years ago. In April, biotech company Colossal Biosciences announced it had cloned three pups that resemble the long-dead creatures. Scientists used DNA from a ...

Colossal's 2025 video review includes dire wolves and woolly mice. In this video, produced by Colossal Biosciences, the biotech firm looks back at its breakthroughs in 2025, including the reveal of ...

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. A recent display in Time magazine features a photo of a handsome white dog-like animal, a dire wolf. The ...

Adriana Perez’s recent article, “The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn” (April 20), highlights an unproductive attempt to shift conservation ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire ...

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Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...