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." ...

Colossal's years-long de-extinction campaign is built on a semantic house of cards and the "illusory truth effect" — where if you repeat something enough times, people will believe it. The ...

The dire wolf is “the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”, Colossal Biosciences claimed on 7 April. And many people seemed to believe it. New Scientist was one of the few media ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf. The company presents this as a breakthrough for ...

Sunderfolk is set in Arden, a gorgeous little animal village sheltering beneath the colossal Brightstone ... Sunderfolk feels like it's straight out of DnD's fifth edition handbook - and that's ...

Colossal Biosciences isn’t exactly a household name. But you’ve probably at least heard of some of their goals and “achievements:” bringing back woolly mammoths and dodo birds, creating “woolly mice” ...

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They got it on squid-eo. Scientists proved that the sea still holds some big mysteries after capturing footage of the colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on the planet — in its habitat f ...

Literally a century after it was first discovered, we now have footage of the colossal squid alive in its natural habit for the very first time for your viewing pleasure. A member of the glass ...

This squid was formally identified and named 100 years ago. A colossal squid was filmed in its natural environment by scientists for the first time since its identification and naming 100 years ...

The company claiming it can restore lost species also wants to patent them. Colossal Biosciences not only wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—it wants to patent it, too. MIT Technology Review ...