The company behind the dire wolf comeback hopes to restore Africa's bluebuck, once hunted to extinction by colonialists.

Humans wiped out the bluebuck in Africa around 200 years ago. Bringing it back is both ethically and technologically ...

The bluebuck, an antelope with a silvery slate-blue coat and striking horns, inhabited the coastal grasslands of South Africa ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only a few hundred red wolves still exist, most in captivity. JeffGoulden/E+ via Getty Images Have you been hearing about the dire ...

The Company Trying to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Already Brought Back the Dire Wolf. The Real Story Is What It Built Along the Way. Last April, three wolf pups named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are ...

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 ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...