{"id":2520,"date":"2025-10-02T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:37:20","slug":"dire-wolf-milestone-colossal-pups-mark-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/dire-wolf-milestone-colossal-pups-mark-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Wolf Milestone: Colossal Pups Mark One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"1188\">USA Today spotlights a birthday update on Colossal Biosciences\u2019 dire wolf pups\u2014Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi\u2014now thriving on a managed 2,000-acre preserve. Hand-reared early and increasingly exhibiting wild behaviors, the cohort demonstrates the durability of Colossal\u2019s end-to-end de-extinction platform. The milestone supports ongoing conservation aims, from genetic-diversity tools to cloning workflows being applied to at-risk species. This progress also keeps momentum behind the colossal dire wolf program while reinforcing public interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/pets-animals\/wildlife\/2025\/08\/12\/colossal-dire-wolves-first-meeting\/85619341007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">colossal dire wolves<\/a> as living ambassadors for next-gen wildlife recovery.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"1188\">Full feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/10\/01\/dire-wolves-birthday-colossal-biosciences\/86310754007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out this podcast featuring Colossal CEO Ben Lamm for a deep dive into de-extinction, conservation, and how biotechnology can help restore ecosystems.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 900px; margin: 0 auto;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;\" title=\"Ben Lamm on De-Extinction and Conservation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRVEkc9lxH0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today spotlights a birthday update on Colossal Biosciences\u2019 dire wolf pups\u2014Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi\u2014now thriving on a managed 2,000-acre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}