Colossal Biosciences is pursuing this plan, having already revived the dire wolf using grey wolf DNA, and is working on projects to bring back the giant moa bird and other extinct animals. In the ...

The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in ...

Earlier this year, a company called Colossal Biosciences brought into the world a trio of dire wolves, an ancient, large kind of wolf that died out thousands of ...

The revived dire wolves are growing, as Colossal Biosciences has shared an update on the three pups that were brought back ...

Is this really a dire wolf? Here’s how the ‘de-extinct’ pups compare to the real thing. Genetics and behavior complicate efforts to bring back extinct species.

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Rebirth, Universal seemingly spared no expense to make the technology as real as possible, just like Steven Spielberg's ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, the company behind the dire wolf's resurrection, could soon bring back another extinct ...

The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell the real secret to saving threatened species. And the answer isn ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf.

But dire wolves were real creatures that once roamed across North and South America during the Pleistocene epoch, standing taller than modern gray wolves with more robust builds and greater jaw ...