Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible ...

Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus ... African jackals are divided into two species — the black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas), native to eastern and southern Africa, and the side-striped jackal ...

The Colossal team thus engineered two other genes that shut down black and red pigmentation, leading to the dire wolf’s characteristic light color without causing any harm in the edited gray ...

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

By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Four-year-old Colossal — which has referred to itself as the De-Extinction Company — says that the dire wolves are just the first of a number of extinct animals ...

Genetically modifying gray wolves to resemble the extinct dire wolf may be an impressive scientific feat, but it’s no substitute for protecting living species that are currently at risk.

Ganzert, chief executive of the American Humane Society, gushed on Colossal’s website. The dire wolf genome likely differs from that of the gray wolf in millions or tens of millions of ways.

One of the subspecies of black rhinos, it was declared extinct ... Publicly funded science was a big part of the reason the dire wolf was Colossal’s first project, Shapiro said.

On Saturday, two families’ worlds changed after a crash on Bryan Station Road that killed 17-year-old Matthew Perrine. The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II ...