The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Canine that Roamed Prehistoric America, Has Been Resurrected
thedebrief.org
The dire wolf has been resurrected in a remarkable achievement by Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences.

While not the gigantic uber-canines of fantasy lore, these pups will become roughly-gray-wolf-sized dire wolves, and represent the first de-extincted animal species, raising a number of ethical questions about returning animals to ecosystems that may not be stable for long.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Damn. You’re right. Those journalists were sneaky slipping in this quote and not challenging/clarifying it:

    “We took a 13,000-year-old tooth, and a 74,000-year-old skull, and we made puppies,” Lamm told The Debrief.