A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

A Dallas-based company claims to have brought back wolves that last roamed the Earth more than 12,500 years ago and became widely known due to the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones." Colossal ...

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species. A Texas startup called ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf. A slow clap from ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show? By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...

The recent announcement by Colossal Biosciences Inc about the revival of dire wolves sparked excitement, the company unveiled two genetically modified wolf pups, claiming to bring back the fierce ...

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Two male dire wolves, Romulus and Remus, have celebrated their first birthday. The wolves were born through genetic engineering by biotech company Colossal Biosciences. At one year old, the male dire ...

A Texas startup called Colossal Biosciences made a big splash this week by releasing footage of canines they say are dire wolves, a species that vanished more than ...