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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction | newscientist.com (www.newscientist.com)

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Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hank Green made a pretty good video on the topic. Basically, he's excited about the stuff Collosal is doing that surrounds this, but doesn't like the way they are marketing gray wolves that look like dire wolves as dire wolves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Seems to be a trend:

Clickbait headlines that are false spread.

A few days later: Headlines stating those were false

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not paywalled: https://archive.is/KjOdo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

But to be fair, article author Michael Le Page isn't really human, he's just an australopithecus with a whole bunch of extra human traits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

why cant we be breeding ostriches into transportation?