The successful birth of Colossal Biosciences' dire wolves represents far more than a scientific milestone—it marks the ...

Dr. Beth Shapiro, Chief Science Officer of Colossal Biosciences is a champion of animal bioscience, but she’s been met with ...

A legal scholar with a doctorate in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals ...

For most of human history, extinction has been understood as an immutable fact of nature—a one-way door that, once closed, ...

“We have two dire wolf specimens, the only dire wolf specimens that have ever produced viable DNA, and there’s 60,000 years of genetic divergence between them,” Lamm says, referring to the ...

Ben Lamm, the billionaire founder of Colossal Labs, and Sophie Turner spoke about his company’s efforts in reviving the long-extinct dire wolf during a panel at SXSW’s first London outpost.

Colossal’s “dire wolves” aren’t monsters, miracles, or evolutionary glitches. They’re gray wolves that are still very much alive in the modern gene pool. When a company like Colossal ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...

A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that are currently endangered.

Alex Erwin, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game ...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker says the de-extinction is an opportunity to make people curious and excited about science and conservation.

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...