On October 1, 2024, two dire wolf pups—predators that roamed America over 10,000 years ago—were brought back to life using ancient DNA extracted from fossilized remains. A special technology allowed ...

Ever since the announcement of the supposed de-extinction of the dire wolf after being gone for 12,500 years, conversations surrounding the use of cloning technology to revive extinct species have ...

With wildlife populations globally 73% smaller on average than in 1970 and large mammals missing from much of the world, surely there's never been a better time to "de-extinct" species? US biotech ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf. The company presents this as a breakthrough for conservation ...

Therefore, the “de-extinct” animals would not have the same DNA as the extinct species, or even close to it. The genome of the de-extinct animal would mostly consist of the closest living relative ...

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 ...