Photographs authentically show the skull of a mammoth discovered in a farm field in 2015.

UC Santa Cruz scientists worked with Colossal Biosciences to help reveal secrets in the dire wolf genome that contributed to ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by ...

Turns out, it's really cute. Dire wolf skulls were significantly larger than gray wolves' The dire wolf was very similar to the present-day gray wolf but was much heavier, with a larger ...

Colossal's approach involved extracting ancient DNA from a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull found in Idaho and a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio. The team then studied this genetic material to identify ...

wider skull and stronger jaw. Scientists then altered grey wolf cells to give them dire wolf traits, making 20 edits in 14 genes before creating embryos and implanting them into large domestic hounds.

In a groundbreaking feat, Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf, extinct for 12,500 years, using ancient DNA and gene editing. Three pups now reside in a secure preserve. Author ...

Joe Rogan discussed the de-extinction of Dire Wolf, examining arguments for and against it. On April 7, Colossal Biosciences, a U.S.-based genetic engineering company, announced the birth of three ...