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Colossal Labs will release the sounds of dire wolves howling ‘later this year,’ founder says


The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.

Ben Lamm, the billionaire founder of Colossal Labs, and Sophie Turner spoke about his company’s efforts in reviving the long-extinct dire wolf during a panel at SXSW’s first London outpost. Lamm and his team are looking at ways to use AI to help monitor the behavior of the wolves, identifying patterns of their emotions and “wolf linguistics,” as he put it. The company announced this year a$200 million Series C at a $10.2 billion valuation and said in March it genetically modified mice to grow mammoth-like fur.

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