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The Dire Wolf Has Been Brought Back To Life — Here Are 3 Other Extinct ‘Giants’ This Biologist Would Love To See In The Flesh
It was recently announced that Colossal, a Texas-based bioscience firm, had succeeded in editing the genome of three gray ...
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A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves ...
12,000 Years Later, Dire Wolves Are Back
They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when they roamed in packs across what would later become the Americas. Standing ...
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They’re back: Bioengineered dire wolf-like pups walk the earth 10,000 years after extinction
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences altered gray wolf DNA to breed the pups – just one of several species the company aims to ...
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Growing wolf populations in Calif. cause concerns
Growing populations of gray wolves in California, including Siskiyou and Modoc counties that neighbor Klamath and Lake ...
Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf
A company that aims to bring back lost species say they have genetically engineered wolves with white hair and muscular jaws ...
The dire wolf is (sort of) back from extinction. Dallas-based startup explains the ‘magic’
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has been chasing de-extinction since its founding in 2021. Four years later, they’ve done ...
‘Return’ of the dire wolf is an impressive feat of genetic engineering, not a reversal of extinction
Colossal’s dire wolf project is not a resurrection – it is an imitation. But that doesn’t mean it lacks value. It offers a ...