The company that claims to have "resurrected" the dire wolf has its sights set on the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger.

It went extinct as recently as the 1930s, with the last living Tasmanian tiger residing in a Tasmanian zoo and perishing in 1936. Colossal was able to reconstruct the Tasmanian tiger’s genome to ...

A thylacine or 'Tasmanian wolf', or 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity, circa 1930. These animals are thought to be extinct, since the last known wild thylacine was shot in 1930 and the last captive ...

Meanwhile, the thylacine, or "Tasmanian tiger," went extinct in 1936 when the last captive one died. The last wild thylacine was shot in 1930. Despite the name, the thylacine is not a tiger.