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 ...

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 ...

On April 7, Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company founded in Dallas in 2021 with the goal of “de-extincting” animals, announced it had brought back the dire wolf, a creature last seen in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns. When news broke that Colossal Biosciences ...

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.

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.

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.