France 24, April 2025
They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively — they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species. A Texas startup called Colossal Biosciences made a big splash this week by releasing footage of canines they say are dire wolves, a species that vanished more than 12,000 years ago.
“For the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction,” the company states on its website. Photos and video of these critters have flooded social media and shaken the scientific community, which has reacted with a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism over this experiment reminiscent of “Jurassic Park” — the fictional story of a quirky rich man’s attempt to bring back the dinosaurs.
