In 2012, a young wolf named Slavc loped into the Lessini Mountains of Italy, completing a 1,200-mile route from Slovenia, where he was born. This was a dangerous place for a wolf to settle.

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.

A U.S. company has taken a step aimed at bringing the dire wolf back from oblivion. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has announced the birth of three genetically engineered wolf pups − all with ...

George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard University who cofounded the company with Lamm, says the goal is to eventually produce an animal with the full genome of an extinct dire wolf.

The television series Game of Thrones helped popularize dire wolves, but the creatures don’t just represent a figment of science fiction: the dire wolf was a real animal that went extinct around ...

“It carries dire wolf genes, and these genes make it look more like a dire wolf than anything we’ve seen in the last 13,000 years. And that is very cool,” he added.

But clearly, with the dire wolves, the company has taken its animal creation to a new level. The company’s researchers compared the ancient DNA with the gray wolf and found that the species are ...

The European Parliament, the EU’s legislative body, has now accepted amending the legislation to change the wolf’s status from “strictly protected” to “protected.” ...

April wolf map shows one animal has traveled more than 1,200 miles Other wolves reintroduced to Colorado have gotten close to Boulder and other Front Range cities. News | Apr 25, 2025. ... Full-Time ...

The wolf has traveled more than 1,230 miles since being translocated from Oregon, according to the news release on Thursday. The map also shows wolf activity in watersheds in Jefferson, Larimer, and ...