Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again. A high-profile de‑extinction company says it has produced pups modeled on ...

A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire wolves that the company brought back from extinction are growing quickly, already exceeding the grey wolf in size The genetic engineering ...

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ...

In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

Happy Birthday to the dire wolves. Romulus and Remus, two male dire wolves born through Colossal Biosciences’ genetic engineering advances, have reached their first birthday. The Dallas-headquartered ...