Dire Wolf
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But Is It Really a Dire Wolf? April 14, 2025
Extinct no more, the Time cover proclaimed.Synthetic biology startup Colossal Biosciences literally brought back the dire wolf — a predator that’s been extinct for 10,000 years — by editing a gray wolf embryo to “match” its ancient cousin’s DNA, Time...
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead? April 14, 2025
It’s a quarter past one in the afternoon in Dallas when I meet bearded billionaire Ben Lamm, the 43-year-old denim-jacketed CEO of Colossal Biosciences, who claims to have reintroduced dire wolves into the world after more than 10,000 years of extinc...
The Return of the Dire Wolf April 08, 2025
Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters. At their young age they already measure nearly 4 ft. long, tip the...
