Wolves are known the world over as the bad guys in children’s stories, hunters of deer and elk, and relatives of our beloved dogs.There are two widely recognized species of wolves — the gray wolf ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

In order to conduct this so-called de-extinction event, scientists at Colossal extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth and a 72,000-year-old ear bone, and sequenced the genome.

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Earlier this month, the company made headlines for its “de-extinction” of the dire wolves, a species that existed 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch.

Red wolves are the most critically endangered wolf in the world; only 16 of them still exist in the wild. Currently 270 red wolves are living in captivity, with plans for them to be released.

It’s true that Colossal didn’t clone its wolves from actual dire wolf cells. Instead, it mapped the genome of the extinct wolf relying on DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and from a 72,000 ...

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 ...

In addition to the recent announcement of the dire wolf, Colossal has successfully birthed two litters of red wolf pups, a major breakthrough in de-extinction technology for global conservation.