Colossal Biosciences has cloned four red wolf pups from living red wolves. The technology could aid conservation efforts in saving the species. Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the ...

Happy Birthday to the dire wolves. Romulus and Remus, two male dire wolves born through Colossal Biosciences’ genetic engineering advances, have reached their first birthday. The Dallas-headquartered ...

This story was updated on January 8, 2026. 2025 was an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared to be ...

US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least that’s what the company would like you to believe. Social media is abuzz with viral videos, memes, and images of ...

On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then. When you ...