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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction | newscientist.com (www.newscientist.com)
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Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seems to be a trend:

Clickbait headlines that are false spread.

A few days later: Headlines stating those were false

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