The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, has created three dire wolf pups. See why they ...

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Here’s what Catholics should know about the dire wolves and what the Church might have to say about “resurrecting” extinct species of animals.

Colossal Biosciences revealed recently it had born three pups using the ancient DNA of the dire wolf, which went extinct ...

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"The genetics say they are not related closely in any way,” Angela Perri, an archaeologist at Durham University, and co-author of a paper on dire wolf genetics, told National Geographic.

Imagine that you could travel back in time, to before Minnesota was settled. In this scenario, you’re an eagle, carving huge circles against a cobalt sky, riding a midday’s thermals, while below, ...

"The genetics say they are not related closely in any way,” Angela Perri, an archaeologist at Durham University, and co-author of a paper on dire wolf genetics, told National Geographic.