The company that brought back the “dire wolf” has a new project, and this time the animals are a lot more familiar.

Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey announced on Thursday, Oct. 22, that they have launched Warhound , a new company that will use Colossal’s genetics and cloning technology to produce dogs from what it calls “America’s top-performing” working dogs. The Texas-based company said it has raised $200 million in seed funding.

Colossal is best known for its de-extinction work, including the “dire wolves” born in October 2024. Warhound takes that same science and points it at a practical problem: finding enough dogs that can actually do the job.

Warhound plans to supply dogs to the military, law enforcement and emergency response teams. According to the company, more than 80% of U.S. military working dogs come from Europe, and fewer than half of the dogs bought make it through a training process that takes about three years.…