Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column and has covered de-extinction for more than a decade.

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

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.

It is already a questionable idea to return the long-extinct dire wolf—a creature 25 percent bigger than the modern gray wolf, whose enormous teeth once slew horses and bison across the ...

Advertisement Advertisement The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years ...

The phrase “dead as a Dodo” may no longer be applicable anymore as one Dallas-based company seeks to make extinction a thing of the past. Colossal Biosciences has bioengineered a wolf that last roamed ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas ...

Colossal Biosciences, a company that aims to “de-extinct” animals, announced Monday its scientists successfully genetically engineered three wolves to resemble the long-extinct dire wolf.