In early April, the world woke up to headlines sounding like a cross between “Jurassic Park” and “Game of Thrones”: Colossal ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company announced on April 7, 2025, the birth of "dire wolf" pups which went extinct over 10,000 years ago.

The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had “resurrected” a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than ...

That’s swell. But history shows there is a lot more than genetics needed to save red wolves. Red wolf numbers plummeted in the 1970s, because of lost habitat and hunting, as well as inbreeding ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025.

But Colossal's findings suggest the dire wolf goes back about 4.5 million years ago with ancestors including a mix of South American canids (the family of mammals such as wolfs and dogs) and a ...

A gray wolf isn’t a dire wolf, and a failed attempt at a chaotic tariff plan that could sink the U.S. dollar isn’t the “art of the deal.” April 14, 2025, 11:18 AM PDT By Ali Velshi ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately ...

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest concentration of dire wolf fossils in the world, with remains from over 4,000 dire wolves found at the site. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years ...

Many scientists argued that the gray wolf is not the dire wolf’s closest living relative, citing a 2021 paper that found dire wolves diverged from living canids 5.7 million years ago, and from ...

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest concentration of dire wolf fossils in the world, with remains from over 4,000 dire wolves found at the site. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years ...

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two ...