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The genetics laboratory claims its dire wolf pups Romulus and Remus have resurrected the long-lost species—but the semantics are debatable. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, climate ch...
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Colossal managed to resurrect it by editing snippets of the gray wolf’s gene sequence that were most divergent between the two related species.
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Did Colossal Biosciences actually bring dire wolves back from extinction? Scientists say it depends
The genetics laboratory claims its dire wolf pups Romulus and Remus have resurrected the long-lost species—but the semantics are debatable. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, climate change is projected to cause the extinction of more than a third of the species of plants and animals in the world in 25 years.
These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals
But that wouldn’t sound as impressive on a magazine cover.   Thousands of years before we had the slightest idea of how genetics worked, humans were altering the genes of wolves and their dog descendants through breeding and domestication,
Scientists say they ‘brought back’ dire wolves from extinction. Not exactly.
Scientists contend that while Colossal’s technological feats are impressive, the animals are not truly dire wolves and that the process has raised a raft of ethical issues.
The Dire Wolf Has Been Brought Back To Life — Here Are 3 Other Extinct ‘Giants’ This Biologist Would Love To See In The Flesh
A Texas bioscience firm announced that it used gene editing to resurrect the extinct dire wolf. Here’s what this evolutionary biologist would like to see it work on next.
A biotech company has, sort of, revived the long-extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead, achieving the biotech company’s first successful de-extinction. But some scientists say that while the wolves’ existence is an impressive feat,
Dire wolf reportedly brought back from extinction
They are the first dire wolves to be born since their extinction over 12,000 years ago, according to NPR. “Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,
The dire wolf, which went extinct 12,500 years ago, revived by biotech company
Colossal Biosciences said it used ancient DNA from the extinct species to create three dire wolf pups named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi.
Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf
Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.
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