One year ago, Colossal Biosciences' first dire wolves returned from extinction. According to the bioengineering company, on Oct. 1, 2024, "for the first time in human history, Colossal successfully ...
When I returned to Colossal’s new headquarters in Dallas last week for its official grand opening, the first thing I noticed was the lobby. While this large open space looked complete before, ...
The genetic engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, first announced the arrival of the dire wolves in April Colossal Biosciences shared footage from the first face-to-face meeting between its three ...
Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...
Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and died across the Americas. They were heavier than today’s gray wolves, ...
Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio of ...
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 ...
In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...
Two male dire wolves, Romulus and Remus, have celebrated their first birthday. The wolves were born through genetic engineering by biotech company Colossal Biosciences. At one year old, the male dire ...
For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...
Romulus, Remus, and their younger sister Khaleesi are living together on a 2,000-acre preserve under close veterinary care One year ago, Colossal Biosciences' first dire wolves returned from ...