Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company, is using gene-editing technology to resurrect extinct species like the dodo and the woolly mammoth.

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, ...

People can debate for days, weeks and years whether dragons ever existed, but there are some fantastical creatures we know to have been real. The dire wolf, made famous as the symbol of House Stark in ...

In recent months, the Dallas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences announced the rebirth of the long-extinct dire wolf and woolly mammoth, species that had been extinct for thousands of years, ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous by Game of Thrones have doubled in size in mere months. Romulus, Remus, ...

Colossal Biosciences’ cloned “dire wolves” hit a major milestone this week, as the female dire wolf Khaleesi finall got a chance to meet her brothers, Remus and Romulus. Colossal has been posting ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the ...

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 ...

Cute as a button, but not dire wolves: Colossal Biosciences claims that these animals, Romulus and Remus, represent an extinct species rescued from oblivion. But experts say that's hype. (Colossal ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin. But was it all for show? By Degen Pener Deputy Editor ...

Sophie Turner calls dire wolf de-extinction a monumental moment for science and conservation. Concerns arise over the authenticity of the reintroduced dire wolves, sparking skepticism. Turner's ...