Wolves

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a young wolf that was genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via AP)

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf

A company that aims to bring back lost species say they have genetically engineered wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf.

This Jan. 24, 2025 file image provided by the Arizona Game and Fish Department shows a Mexican gray wolf in the wild that was monitored as part of a population survey in eastern Arizona. (Arizona Game and Fish Department via AP File)

Snatched pets and livestock deaths blamed on wolves prompt emergency in rural New Mexico

The U.S. Department of Agriculture building is seen in Washington, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

US agency kills Colorado wolf in Wyoming where it was suspected of killing sheep

This Jan. 24, 2025, image provided by the Arizona Game and Fish Department shows a Mexican gray wolf in the wild that was monitored as part of a population survey in eastern Arizona. (Arizona Game and Fish Department via AP)

More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern US, annual survey shows

This image made from video provided by SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland shows a rare black wolf crossing a stream in a Polish forest last summer. (SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland via AP)

Pair of rare black wolves caught on camera in Polish forest by wildlife researchers

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are living in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to researchers at Colossal Biosciences. (Video production: Laura Bargfeld)

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More endangered Mexican gray wolves are roaming the southwestern US, annual survey shows

Pair of rare black wolves caught on camera in Polish forest by wildlife researchers

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15 wolves from Canada released into Colorado under voter-approved initiative

Colorado wolf died from a gunshot, spurring a federal investigation

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy holds during a news conference on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska, outlining his budget proposal for the coming year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling

FILE - A young wolf licks the ear of his playmate at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (Steffen Schmidt/ Keystone via AP, File)

European nations vote to lower protections for wolves after farmers push to allow culls

Environmentalists concerned after protected Mexican wolf dies in Arizona

The Wyoming Legislature's Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee discusses changes to how the state allows predators such as wolves to be killed with vehicles Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Cheyenne. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)

Wyoming moves ahead with slight change to law allowing wolves to be killed with vehicles

FILE - In this April 9, 2009 file photo, Swedish wolves are pictured at Skansen Zoo, in Stockholm. (AP Photo/Jonas Ekstromer/Scanpix Sweden, File)

The EU moves to loosen protections for wolves as their population grows

FILE - This remote camera image provided by the U.S. Forest Service shows a female gray wolf and two of the three pups born in 2017 in the wilds of Lassen National Forest in northern California on June 29, 2017. (U.S. Forest Service via AP, File)

The Biden administration is taking steps to eliminate protections for gray wolves

FILE - In this photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, wildlife officials release five gray wolves onto public land in Grand County, Colo., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. (Colorado Natural Resources via AP)

Wolf pack blamed in Colorado livestock attacks is captured and will be relocated

FILE - In this photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, wildlife officials release five gray wolves onto public land in Grand County, Colo., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. (Colorado Natural Resources via AP)

Wolf pack that attacked Colorado livestock to be relocated as reintroduction program stumbles

Dutch province warns parents against taking young children to forests following wolf encounters

FILE - This June 7, 2023, image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the female Mexican gray wolf F2754 during a health check before being released into the wild in southeastern Arizona. The exceptionally restless female Mexican gray wolf nicknamed Asha will be held in captivity with a potential mate through another breeding season in hopes of aiding the recovery of the species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Aislinn Maestas/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Wandering wolf of the Southwest confined through 2025 breeding season in hopes of producing pups

FILE - This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo, Nov. 7, 2017. Six conservation groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday, July 2, 2024, challenging a recent U.S. government decision not to protect wolves in northern Rocky Mountain states as an endangered species. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via AP, File)

Groups sue to restore endangered species protection for US northern Rockies wolves

Verdict in for wildlife mystery in Nevada where DNA tests show suspected wolves were coyotes

FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf, April 18, 2008. A judge on Monday, May 6, 2024, dismissed a lawsuit filed by animal welfare advocates seeking to invalidate Wisconsin’s new wolf management plan. (Gary Kramer/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Wisconsin judge dismisses lawsuit challenging state’s new wolf management plan

FILE - A gray wolf is seen, July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The U.S. House moved Tuesday, April 30, 2024, toward ending federal protections for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove wolves across the lower 48 states from the endangered species list. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

US House votes to remove wolves from endangered list in 48 states

FILE - This Sept. 26, 2018, photo provided by the National Park Service shows a 4-year-old female gray wolf emerging from her cage as she is released at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Researchers who were forced to cut an annual survey of wildlife on the remote Lake Superior island short this winter due to unusually warm weather announced Tuesday, April 30, 2024, that the data they were able to gather shows the island's wolf population is stable. (National Park Service via AP, File)

Remote Lake Superior island wolf numbers are stable but moose population declining, researchers say

FILE - A track from a wolf is seen in the mud near the Slough Creek area of Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Animal groups are urging tourists not to visit Wyoming after a man hit a wolf then took it to a bar

Nottingham Forest's Gibbs-White celebrates his side's first goal of the game during the Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton Wanderers at the City Ground, in Nottingham, England, Saturday April 13, 2024. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Gibbs-White scores against former club as Nottingham Forest settles for draw with Wolves

FILE - Wolf tracks are shown in the snow in this undated photo from the Sherman Creek Ranch near Walden, Colorado. A wolf has killed a calf in Colorado, wildlife officials said Wednesday, confirming the first livestock kill after 10 of the predators were controversially reintroduced in Dec. 2023. (Don Gittleson via AP, File)

Wolf kills a calf in Colorado, the first confirmed kill after the predator’s reintroduction

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers addresses a joint session of the state Legislature in the Assembly chambers during his State of the State speech at the state Capitol, Jan. 22, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Evers vetoed a $3 billion Republican tax cut proposal as promised on Friday, March 29, 2024, along with other GOP proposals that would have set a number of wolves that could be hunted every year and banned political loyalty pledges for higher education employees. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Gov. Evers vetoes $3 billion Republican tax cut, wolf hunting plan, DEI loyalty ban

Mexico City residents help cops chase down a loose wolf

In this Jan. 25, 2024 image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Aiden Caruso, a Mexican wolf technician with the agency, carries a sedated wolf during an annual survey of the endangered species near Beaverhead, N.M. The wolves are released after undergoing health checks by wildlife managers. (Aislinn Maestas/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Mexican gray wolves boost their numbers, but a lack of genetic diversity remains a threat

FILE - In this February 2021, photo released by California Department of Fish and Wildlife, shows a gray wolf (OR-93) near Yosemite, Calif. Federal wildlife officials announced Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, that they have rejected requests from conservation groups to restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six western states, saying the population in those states is strong. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

US won’t restore protections for wolves in Rockies, proposes national recovery plan

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the U.S. National Park Service and the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation, a white wolf is released onto Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. (Daniel Conjanu/The National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation via AP, File)

Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades

FILE - A gray wolf is seen, July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Wisconsin Republicans sent a bill that would mandate state wildlife managers set a cap on the state's wolf population to Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, forcing the governor to choose between pleasing conservationists who want to protect the creatures and farmers who say wolves are destroying their livestock. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

Wisconsin Assembly approves a bill mandating a limit on the wolf population, sends proposal to Evers

Wolves at a Dutch national park can be shot with paintball guns to scare them off, a court has ruled

In this photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, wildlife officials release five gray wolves onto public land in Grand County, Colo., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. The wolves were released to kick off a voter-approved reintroduction program that was embraced in the state's mostly Democratic urban corridor but staunchly opposed in conservative rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock. (Colorado Natural Resources via AP)

Colorado releases first 5 wolves in reintroduction plan approved by voters to chagrin of ranchers

A female wolf pup is seen in North Park, Colo, in this February 2022 photograph. A handful of the predators have wandered into Colorado from Wyoming in recent years. ( Eric Odell/Colorado Parks and Wildlife via AP)

Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado

In February 2021, Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff tranquilized and placed a GPS collar on male gray wolf 2101 after it had been spotted in north-central Colorado traveling with the female gray wolf 1084 from Wyoming’s Snake River Pack. (Eric Odell/Colorado Parks and Wildlife via AP)

Judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado