it relied on cool, misty conditions to survive. Climate change and disease took that away. Chytrid fungus killed off the remaining populations; by 2021, it was considered extinct. The Chinese ...

Through gene editing, scientists at Colossal Biosciences are reviving long-extinct animals. But is it really for the sake of ...

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

Colossal Biosciences—the company known for its plan to bring back the woolly mammoth—has just bio-engineered the first dire ...

The company also announced in April 2025 that it had bred three young dire wolfs, an animal which went extinct over ... could use to resurrect extinct animals. The aurochs, a type of prehistoric ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

“Maybe we can make these animals again, and that’s cool, but what are we gonna do with them?” she says. “Where are we gonna ...

Colossal Biosciences have birthed three wolves using the ancient DNA of dire wolves, which went extinct about 13,000 ... at rebuilding the DNA of now-extinct animals. The company said their ...

Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead, achieving ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.