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Pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf are here. But why?
Researchers from a private biosciences company called Colossal say they’ve extracted DNA from a 13,000-year-old fossil to bring the dire wolf back to life. But are these yowling pups the real deal or ...
The dire wolf went extinct 13,000 years ago. What to know about this colossal beast
A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric ...
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Update On Dogs Who Birthed Extremely Rare Dire Wolf Puppies Is Making People's Day
In order to birth these three amazingly rare and now de-extinct animals, scientists at Colossal had to extract and sequence ...
Are dire wolves de-extinct? Genetically engineered pups spark controversy
Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf
Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...