On a fenced U.S. preserve, a pair of heavy‑boned canids now stalk and play that, until recently, existed only in tar pits and textbooks. Colossal Biosciences says these living pups carry the signature ...

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Just more than a week has gone by since Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed it had produced three live dire wolves puppies – Remus, Romulus and ...

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One of the biggest headlines of the week: A Texas-based genetics company claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction — or, essentially, from the dead. Earlier this week, the Dallas-based ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three pups ...

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern Alberta, Canada to Florida, and even down into Chile. The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

Romulus and Remus are the genetically modified gray wolves that Colossal Biosciences endowed with traits of the extinct dire wolf. (Credit: Colossal Biosciences) Last week, Colossal Biosciences made ...

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the science ...

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