The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George ...

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 ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a ...

The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had “resurrected” a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

First, it is important to recognise that Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, the three “dire wolf” pups created, are not actually dire wolves. Colossal carried out 20 edits in 14 genes of the grey ...

The scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow will use gene editing to modify the DNA of the African ...

Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin has called the long-overdue penultimate instalment in his A Song of Fire and Ice ...

George R.R. Martin has said writing the long-awaited instalment in his A Song of Fire and Ice series is “the curse" of his life.

The recent announcement by Colossal Biosciences Inc about the revival of dire wolves sparked excitement, the company unveiled ...

Following the successful reintroduction of the once-extinct dire wolves, scientists have set their sights next on ...