The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

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

Immortalized in Game of Thrones and on the crest of House Stark, the dire wolf is walking the earth again and even howling after going extinct nearly 10,000 years ago. As announced today by genetic ...

Winter is coming ... and so are the dire wolves. The large canines — best known for being featured in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" — went extinct nearly 13,000 years ago. But they're now making a ...

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences' effort to revive the extinct giant moa bird using ancient DNA and gene editing The ...

Romulus, Remus, and their younger sister Khaleesi are living together on a 2,000-acre preserve under close veterinary care One year ago, Colossal Biosciences' first dire wolves returned from ...

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences claimed dire wolves were brought back from extinction after disappearing from Earth 12,500 years ago, in a “world-first achievement” of reviving a species from a ...

A dire wolf de-extinction debate, CRISPR-GPT for gene editing, and more topped the list of our most popular stories in ...

These genetically-engineered “dire wolves” are now six months old, and are already markedly bigger than gray wolves at their age. Both males are over 90 pounds, and Khaleesi is still visibly smaller ...

Nick Reiner, son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to his parents ...