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 ...

Dire wolves, long confined to tar pits and fantasy epics, are suddenly being talked about as living, breathing animals again. A high-profile de‑extinction company says it has produced pups modeled on ...

Those cute dire wolves are forming a pack. If you remember, Colossal Biosciences, the company seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, revealed in April 2025 it had successfully birthed a trio 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 ...

Colossal Biosciences shared a progress update on the world's first new dire wolves — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — since the species went extinct Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences ...

In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...

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 ...

The dire wolf is “the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”, Colossal Biosciences claimed on 7 April. And many people seemed to believe it. New Scientist was one of the few media outlets to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alex Erwin, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you been hearing ...

Two male dire wolves, Romulus and Remus, have celebrated their first birthday. The wolves were born through genetic engineering by biotech company Colossal Biosciences. At one year old, the male dire ...