"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...

Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct animals, like the dire wolf, result in animals that are not the same as their ancestors and are actually hybrid animals.

Dire wolves went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago ... United States surrounded by a 10-foot-tall fence to safeguard the animals. Colossal scientists extracted ancient DNA from two dire wolf ...

Colossal Biosciences claims to have "de-extincted" dire wolves by creating three pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi. But ...

A number of experts say that bringing back extinct animals will not solve any conservation problems and that efforts would be better spent trying to find ways to save current critically endangered ...

Colossal Biosciences Inc., which has a $10 billion valuation, touts its one-of-a-kind gene editing technology that aims at rebuilding the DNA of now-extinct animals. The company said their work is ...