Anyone weary of the fire hose of dire news from the White House might have found respite in an uplifting story emanating from Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetics startup, early this month: ...

The dire wolf has officially returned to the spotlight, but are these Ice Age predators actually as powerful as people think? In this video we break down the original dire wolf build, comparing its ...

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US ...

So, Colossal Biosciences — the company that’s somehow worth a casual $10.2 billion without delivering any real de-extinction success — announced they’ve “brought back” the dire wolf. A slow clap from ...

On Monday, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully created three dire wolf puppies The biotechnology and genetic engineering company received a $10.2 billion valuation, placing it in ...

To evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch, what Colossal made is closer to a genetically modified gray wolf than a resurrection of an extinct species. "They made clones of gray wolves with 20 genetic ...

The headlines and TV chyrons delivered the breathless news: The dire wolves had returned. It was kind of thrilling, even if you were not a fan of “Game of Thrones” where the creatures were a baleful ...

The story of bringing dire wolves back from extinction begins not in a laboratory, but in ancient deposits where their remains lay buried for millennia. The genetic material that would eventually give ...