Scientists Debate Claim That “Extinct” Dire Wolves Are Back ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

The genetic engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, first announced the arrival of the dire wolves in April Colossal Biosciences shared footage from the first face-to-face meeting between its three ...

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 ...

A Dallas-based biotech company called Colossal Biosciences says it has produced “de-extinct” dire wolf pups using ...

Colossal has said it hopes revived species such as the woolly mammoth, created using gene-edited Asian elephant DNA, could ...

People can debate for days, weeks and years whether dragons ever existed, but there are some fantastical creatures we know to have been real. The dire wolf, made famous as the symbol of House Stark in ...

The Trump administration is increasingly granting ranchers permission to kill endangered Mexican gray wolves, and giving them broader discretion to go after animals on public land. The latest permit — ...

Wildlife officials have announced that they killed four of California’s endangered gray wolves, following their rampant attacks on cattle across the Sierra Valley north of Lake Tahoe. “This decision ...

Ethiopian wolf, Canis simensis, in the nature. Bale Mountains NP, Ethiopia. Rare endemic animal portrait Africa. Wildlife nature from Ethiopia. Orange jackal fox, sunny day. Ethiopian wolf.© Ondrej ...