UC Santa Cruz scientists worked with Colossal Biosciences to help reveal secrets in the dire wolf genome that contributed to ...

"Anyone saying this isn't a wolf shows that humans have lost some of our basic survival instincts," said one commenter on the ...

A breakthrough in genetic science is stirring excitement in the scientific community as the first dire wolf pups in thousands ...

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by ...

“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies," Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm explained in a statement. “It was once ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions.

These adorable little animals look like white puppies, not the fruit of a daring science project to resuscitate an extinct species!

Scientific Resurrection Even before the dawn of civilization, many species went extinct, usually from a mix of climate warming at the end of the Ice Age, and over-hunting or competition with early ...

They crawled hesitantly, whimpered softly, and drank from baby bottles — a sight more akin to adorable white puppies than the controversial product of an unprecedented de-extinction initiative.

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh ... team studied DNA from two dire wolf fossils -- a tooth from 13,000 years ago and a skull fragment dated back 72,000 years -- and compared ...