Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

Scientific Resurrection Even before the dawn of civilization, many species went extinct, usually from a mix of climate warming at the end of the Ice Age, and over-hunting or competition with early ...

Most professional biologists, myself included, do not think they have brought dire wolves back from extinction by any ...

As biotech companies race to resurrect extinct species, policymakers face urgent questions about ecological risks, disease ...

Discover the groundbreaking story of dire wolf de-extinction. Explore Colossal Biosciences’ efforts to bring back this ...

I OFTEN think some bright spark should do an environmental audit of these climate-change summits. We’ve had 29 of them so far ...

Many species of megafauna became extinct near the time dire wolves became extinct. Phillips said the lack of prey is likely a factor in the extinction of dire wolves. Climate change and possibly ...

Ethical debates regarding Colossal Biosciences’s achievements and over-marketing aside, the company behind woolly mice is ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

Earlier this week, we learned that a company called Colossal Biosciences managed to — steel yourself for this — revived dire ...