{"id":2522,"date":"2025-10-08T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:36:35","slug":"dire-wolf-pups-turn-one-with-cake-and-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/dire-wolf-pups-turn-one-with-cake-and-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Wolf Pups Turn One With Cake and Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romulus and Remus, Colossal Biosciences\u2019 first revived dire wolves, just turned one. The pups live on a monitored 2,000-acre preserve, where they\u2019ve grown past 120 pounds and continue developing natural pack behaviors. To mark the milestone, musicians Stan Bush and Lenny Macaluso debuted \u201cHappy Birthday Dire Wolf,\u201d while the team served a 3D wolf-shaped enrichment cake. The update reinforces progress across Colossal\u2019s platform: the colossal dire wolf project proves scalable de-extinction methods, and recent pigeon PGC advances the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250917160818\/en\/Colossal-Advances-Dodo-De-Extinction-with-Significant-Worlds-First-Breakthrough-in-Pigeon-PGCs-and-Secures-an-Additional-%24120M-in-Funding-for-Species-Expansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dodo revival effort<\/a> forward. Together, these programs show how precision genetics supports conservation at species and ecosystem levels. The story highlights both a <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.com\/direwolf\/science\/\">colossal dire wolves<\/a> milestone and momentum for future recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Full feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/de-extinct-dire-wolves-celebrate-first-birthday-with-doggy-cake-music-video-11822208\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romulus and Remus, Colossal Biosciences\u2019 first revived dire wolves, just turned one. The pups live on a monitored 2,000-acre preserve, [&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-2522","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\/2522","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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}