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These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals
The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something ...
Does Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolf creation justify its $10B+ valuation?
On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf.
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 ...
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Return of the dire wolf? More like a Colossal case of conservation-washing
While the public fawns over adorable mutated “dire wolves” on Instagram, biodiversity loss is snowballing. One million (known ...
A biotech company has, sort of, revived the long-extinct dire wolf
It's a fierce, majestic beast that disappeared thousands of years ago, save for artistic renderings in books and on screen, ...
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Smith: Wolf delisting bill introduced by GOP Senators would remove gray wolf from federal protections in Wisconsin
Republicans in the U.S. Senate, including Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, have introduced a bill to remove the gray wolf from federal protections.
Dire wolves have been extinct for over 10,000 years. Now, the start-up Colossal Biosciences says it's brought them back.
The startup Colossal Biosciences says it achieved de-extinction and made three new dire wolves named Romulus, Remus, and ...
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But they’re not really dire wolves, are they?
The company now says that three genetically modified gray wolf pups are dire wolves. But the two males (called Remus and ...
“Khaleesi” Is a Bad Name for a De-Extincted Dire Wolf
It is already a questionable idea to return the long-extinct dire wolf—a creature 25 percent bigger than the modern gray wolf ...