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Endangered Wolf Center prepares for gray, red wolf pups
This is as close as we’re getting today to the dens at the endangered wolf center; it’s puppy season and FOX 2 is learning ...
Why the company that's brought back the dire wolf for the first time in 10,000 years may have opened the door to the world's first genetically improved humans...
As they chase each other around their enclosure, nipping each other playfully or gnawing intently on sticks, they certainly ...
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A Texas biotech company says it bred three pups with traits of extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
“That’s Remus”: Tom Brady celebrates biotech breakthrough as Colossal brings dire wolves back from extinction
Tom Brady, an investor in Colossal Biosciences, celebrates the company's groundbreaking achievement in de-extinction.
12,000 Years Later, Dire Wolves Are Back
They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when they roamed in packs across what would later become the Americas. Standing ...
Dire Wolves Are Back. Wooly Mammoths and Dodos Could Soon Be Too.
Resurrecting a long-dead wolf species made famous by “Game of Thrones” may sound like something out of science fiction or fantasy, but scientists say they have accomplished just that – and wolves may ...
Scientists genetically engineer wolves that resemble extinct dire wolf
Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an ...
Dire wolves have been extinct for over 10,000 years. Now, the start-up Colossal Biosciences says it's brought them back.
The startup Colossal Biosciences says it achieved de-extinction and made three new dire wolves named Romulus, Remus, and ...
The dire wolf is (sort of) back from extinction. Dallas-based startup explains the ‘magic’
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has been chasing de-extinction since its founding in 2021. Four years later, they’ve done ...
‘Return’ of the dire wolf is an impressive feat of genetic engineering, not a reversal of extinction
Colossal’s dire wolf project is not a resurrection – it is an imitation. But that doesn’t mean it lacks value. It offers a ...
A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.