The dire wolf, lost to history over 10,000 years ago, has returned! A US- based de-extinction company called ‘Colossal Biosciences’ responsible for bringing back the first animals from extinction says it has revived an extinct species – the dire wolf.

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype