Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

The dire wolf – an extinct animal made famous in the TV series Game of Thrones – has been brought back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, a biotech start-up has announced.

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for ...