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Owner Thinks She Has Labrador-Mix Puppy—Shocked at What DNA Test Shows
"He's only 6 months old and already 41 pounds, so he's gonna be a big boy!" Alexus Bird told Newsweek about her pup, Kona.
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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 ...
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A Texas biotech company says it bred three pups with traits of extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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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Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain
The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.