News

Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special ...
and a dire wolf skull. The paper details how the researchers spent more than a year to "decode the dire wolf’s evolutionary history," Colossal said in a statement. "We generated high-quality ...
President Donald Trump defended the deportation of illegal immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a fiery interview with ABC, pointing to a photo he shared on social ...
Some alleged the cross and skull could be cover-up tattoos designed to mask what they described as a “1” and “3.” “This looks like the most damning evidence yet,” one user speculated.
Dire wolf skulls have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, one of the richest and most diverse collection of Ice Age fossils. The ancient canids likely lived in packs, coordinating with each other ...
Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...
Colossal's chief scientific officer Beth Shapiro says scientists extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone from a dire wolf skull, and extracted and sequenced ...
Amid a supremely chaotic news environment—dominated by Trump’s deportations, Trump’s funding cuts and layoffs, Trump’s tariffs and, of course, the tumultuous stock market the tariffs produced—one ...
A Dire Wolf skull was found in Page County and auctioned off in 2018. According to a Heritage Auction press release, the skull was located near the Nodaway River in Page County. The skull was ...
The Colossal team claims to have used a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull and a 13,000-year-old tooth to isolate real dire wolf genome sequences, then map some of that genome onto gray wolf DNA.
“Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” says Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm in a statement. “It was once ...