In June 2024, scientists from the MKAmmosov North-Eastern Federal University announced the astonishing discovery of a Pleistocene wolf in the Republic of Sakha, a region renowned for its ...

Colossal Biosciences announced in April that it had created dire-wolf-like creatures. This year, we could hear the wolves’ ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living relative, the company announced Monday. The result is essentially a hybrid ...

to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric wolf's closest living relative. Six-month-olds Romulus and Remus, and their two-month-old sister Khaleesi are being raised at an undisclosed U.S ...

The first time one hears that scientists have brought back the dire wolf can be a little surreal. While this apex predator of the Ice Age, a North American legend hailing from the Pleistocene ...

But a 2021 study of dire wolf DNA found that dire wolves emerged from a canid lineage that was closer to African jackals around 5 million years ago. The prehistoric dogs eventually evolved into ...

They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when they roamed in packs across what would later become the Americas.

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.