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.

and these genes make it look more like a dire wolf than anything we’ve seen in the last 13,000 years. And that is very cool.” Dalén, who said he had been “a little bit” involved in the ...