As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

On October 1, 2024, two dire wolf pups—predators that roamed America over 10,000 years ago—were brought back to life using ancient DNA extracted from fossilized remains. A special technology allowed ...

Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...

Adriana Perez’s recent article, “The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn” (April 20), highlights an unproductive attempt to shift conservation ...

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 ...

It has been over 12,000 years since the last dire wolves vanished from the Earth. But the apex predators, made famous by Game of Thrones, are once again growing their pack. Last year, Colossal ...

CEO Ben Lamm says the effort could help protect dozens of endangered antelope species worldwide ...

After slipping out of a South Korean zoo, a wolf named Neukgu sparked concern for its safety. The species is considered extinct in the wild Handout / Daejeon Metropolitan City / AFP via Getty A 2-year ...