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The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.
“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...
The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...
Matt James, Colossal's Chief Animal Officer, shared in the update video that the project is going to plan, with the new dire ...
Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...
Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, the company behind the dire wolf's resurrection, could soon bring back another extinct ...
A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...
Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...
De-Extinction' is a new documentary from Curiosity Stream that reveals how scientists brought back the dire wolf from extinction, and what animals they are working to revive now, including the Tasmani ...
The dire wolf, a species that went extinct some 12,500 years ago but was made famous by the Game of Thrones series, has been brought back to life, according to Texas-based biotech firm Colossal ...
In the case of the dire wolf project, Colossal scientists were working from two fossils, a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull. The DNA provided the dire wolf genome, ...
The dire wolf is a relatively new project for Colossal. The startup had been working the past few years on three species: the mammoth, their marquee animal, ...