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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[-] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Hank Green made a pretty good video on the topic. Basically, he's excited about the stuff Collosal is doing that surrounds this, but doesn't like the way they are marketing gray wolves that look like dire wolves as dire wolves

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