The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think extinct species can be ...

The famous rivalry has been dominated by the red and white side of the city in recent years. The Robins, who have finished ...

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

Earlier this month, a company focused on conservation, Colossal Biosciences, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf.

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

Romulus and Remus are the genetically modified gray wolves that Colossal Biosciences endowed with traits of the extinct dire wolf. (Credit: Colossal Biosciences) Last week, Colossal Biosciences made ...

This list might be a bit repetitive, but it’s illustrative of the overwhelming volume and tone of the coverage.

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say.

It seems that the wolves may never know life outside some kind of confinement. So, did Colossal actually de-extinct a long lost species? Well, the dire wolf is in the details. That’s the current ...

I can’t begin to imagine what a poached dire-like wolf would bring on the black market. Speaking of invasive species, a colleague mentioned that the dire wolf is part of a South American radiation ...

Romulus and Remus, seen here at one-month-old, are two of the three "dire wolf" siblings created by Colossal since last fall. © Colossal Biosciences The single ...

In case you haven’t already read a dozen stories about this, here are some of the most salient details: Scientists at Colossal retrieved DNA from an approximately 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth and ...