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De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back | What they delivered is a gray wolf genome carrying a handful of genetic edits.


What they delivered is a gray wolf genome carrying a handful of genetic edits.

Now, in a coordinated PR blitz, the company is claiming that clones of gray wolves with lightly edited genomes have essentially brought the dire wolf back. Nevertheless, the information that the company has released indicates that it was focused on recapitulating the appearance of a dire wolf, with an emphasis on large size and a white coat. Colossal's Ben Lamm told Ars that imaging of the animal's skeletal morphology to determine which species it resembles will occur during the pups' first annual exam.

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