The Blood Moon Pack has had a rough couple of years. The male, named Y1T and known for distinct dark streaks on his face, had produced a litter of pups with his mate in the spring of 2024, but none ...

Colossal Biosciences has cloned four red wolf pups from living red wolves. The technology could aid conservation efforts in saving the species. Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the ...

The recent announcement by Colossal Biosciences Inc about the revival of dire wolves sparked excitement, the company unveiled two genetically modified wolf pups, claiming to bring back the fierce ...

F rom certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses. Just when you start considering what it ...

US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least that’s what the company would like you to believe. Social media is abuzz with viral videos, memes, and images of ...

On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as scientists can tell, never interbred since then. When you ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. By Lesley Evans Ogden Lesley Evans Ogden previously ...

In an effort to reduce conflicts between California’s growing gray wolf population and rural residents, particularly ranchers, who say the animals are killing their livestock, state wildlife officials ...

California’s expanding gray wolf numbers — a conservation success for an endangered species — have worried ranchers in recent years as wolf-related livestock kills mount. Some ranchers are adapting to ...

After nearly a century’s absence, gray wolves continue to recolonize California, bringing changes and challenges to the state and its inhabitants. Ongoing research and monitoring programs are helping ...