Credit: Colossal Biosciences/National Park Service By: Khariss Bender [Washington, DC] On Monday, April 7, the American biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it has successfully “de-extincted” the dire wolf. Extinct for approximately 10,000 to 13,000 years, the dire wolf has only existed in fossils—and in pop culture depictions like HBO’s Game of…