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USA TODAY |
Colossal's gene editing advances allowed them to harvest ancient DNA from real dire wolves fossils – a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull – and create dire wolf genomes.
Yahoo |
Dire wolves have been extinct for more than 10,000 years. But now, three of them are roaming around somewhere in the U.S.
Forbes |
Some scientists would argue that only cloning can resurrect an extinct species and that gene-editing techniques only get us part of the way there.

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Return of the dire wolf? More like a Colossal case of conservation-washing
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Dire wolf, or Colossal misrepresentation?
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Scientists: No, those are definitely not 'resurrected' dire wolves
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Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?
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A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
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