As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...
Call them dire wolves. Don’t call them dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences, the biotechnology company from Dallas, Texas, that wants to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and dodo, doesn’t care what you call ...
Across the planet, islands are homes to species of animals that cannot be found anywhere else. Isolated from the mainland, ...
"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire wolves that the ...
Adriana Perez’s recent article, “The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn” (April 20), highlights an unproductive attempt to shift conservation ...
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 ...
Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species. Dire wolves became extinct towards the ...
A Texas-based "de-extinction" company has brought the dire wolf back from its 10,000-year hiatus—or so it says. Colossal Biosciences, which has been committed to reviving extinct species since its ...
The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain ...
The dire wolves brought back from extinction earlier this year are on track with their milestones and have surpassed their cousin wolves in size in the process. On Wednesday, Sept. 3, Rob Keyes of ...