Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray ...

Wolf conservationists say the truly dire matter is protecting America’s wild gray wolves — but that’s not as cute and cuddly ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for ...

They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when ...

Dire wolves share ancestry with modern-day dogs, which scientists have already studied and gathered data on extensively.

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

The wolf pups, which range in age from three to six months old, have long white hair, muscular jaws and already weigh ... because they won’t have opportunities to watch and learn from wild dire wolf ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white ... wolf ghost alleles. The four red wolves the Colossal scientists created used that natural genetic reservoir to produce what they ...