Dire Wolf Project, Inc.

18/08/2025

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This American Dirus™ puppy was named Dozer by his family and was out of the Wolf Cub litter from Stanley and Shennara in 2019. Look at those bright blue eyes that turned bright yellow as an adult and his massively thick skeletal structure. An updated adult picture of this puppy is in the comments.

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The Dire Wolf Project began in 1988 with a unique vision: to recreate the look of the long-extinct dire wolf, not as a wild predator, but as a loyal and loving companion. Breeders carefully selected domestic dogs with the right build, size, and coat texture, focusing on temperament as much as appearance. The goal was to craft a dog that carried the ancient wolf’s imposing presence while remaining gentle enough for family life.

Today’s Dire Wolf Project dogs stand out for their immense size, broad skulls, and thick, weather-resistant fur. While they look like they’ve stepped straight out of the Ice Age, owners report that their personalities are the opposite of fierce—calm, patient, and deeply bonded to their humans. These dogs have become a living tribute to a species that vanished thousands of years ago, blending history, genetics, and companionship into one remarkable animal.

11/07/2025

21/06/2025

⚠️ Warning: NOT a lab-grown Franken-wolf ⚠️

This is Mount Everest, and he wasn’t printed in a petri dish by Colossal Biosciences’ science fair experiment gone wild.

Nope—this majestic beast was home-grown the old-fashioned way: through decades of selective breeding, real fur-on-the-ground work, and enough love to melt a glacier.

While Colossal’s out there mixing mammoths with marketing, we’re out here raising actual living legends with domesticated paws, personalities, and pedigrees that howl back to the Ice Age.

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No gene splicing required.

09/06/2025

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09/06/2025

That's right, folks. No real dire wolf DNA was used. They used modern DNA (including domesticated dog DNA) "based on" dire wolf DNA.

Colossal’s “dire wolves” aren’t monsters, miracles, or evolutionary glitches. They’re gray wolves that are still very much alive in the modern gene pool. When a company like Colossal Biosciences says they’ve brought back dire wolves, it’s hard not to picture something straight out of G...

23/05/2025

Colossal Biosciences chief scientist NOW ADMITS they did NOT bring back the dire wolf from extinction!

Of course they didn't!

They artificially genetically modified 14 out of 19,000 genes (20 edits) within the modern gray wolf.

Now there is HUGE controversy within the company on the insistent messaging to call them dire wolves.

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481409-colossal-scientist-now-admits-they-havent-really-made-dire-wolves/

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolves

20/05/2025

Lincoln (Dublin/Albreta), 8 months old, caught mid-pounce like a young Ice Age predator in training! His sleek black coat and determined eyes echo the spirit of his ancient ancestors, but this playful leap is all pup. Watch out, world—this future alpha is finding his stride. 🐾🖤❄️
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19/04/2025

Too much tail. Too much ear. Just enough heart to make the Ice Age weep. ❄️❤️

Mustang from the Muscle Car litter is proof that beauty doesn’t come from perfection—it comes from legacy.

19/04/2025

When your sister's a Corvette and you're trying to be a Mustang, but she still steals the show. 💨🐺 Sibling rivalry!

16/04/2025

Great REAL discussion about the Colossal fiasco we just witnessed last week.

It seems the dire wolf fever is finally starting to break. Many experts have come out to say while this was a remarkable achievement in the field of genetic engineering, the dire wolf is not back. In response to this push back from experts, the biotech company released a paper and a video they contend supports their position. We will briefly break down their arguments.

In 2021 a paper was released discussing the results of the first serious attempt to genetically sequence a dire wolf. The results showed that dire wolves were not wolves at all, but rather more closely related to the African jackals. The similarities in the skeletal structures of dire wolves and grey wolves were attributed to convergent evolution, a phenomenon where different species can look the same because they fill a similar ecological niche. The new paper by the biotech company contends that newly discovered genetic information suggests that dire wolves were the product of admixture/interbreeding between two more ancient canid species. One of these species gave rise to gray wolves, and the other to South American canids. This changes nothing as to our assessment that dire wolves do not walk the earth again. Chimpanzees and Humans are related. If we modify chimps to be hairless and taller, no one would consider them human.

The other argument the biotech company put forward is that the concept of a species is very flexible. There are about 30 different definitions of a species and surely one of them would allow the animals they created to be considered dire wolves. They mention the morphological species concept, where if two animals look the same they can be considered the same species. We also reject this argument as there is truly no way to know if the genetically modified grey wolves look enough like dire wolves to consider them the same species. We suspect not.

Lastly the company claims “deextinction” really just means creating an animal that fills the same role as the extinct one. When we see these animals effectively competing with Sabre toothed cats we will believe it.