Interesting Engineering ++ (@interestingengineering): "GENETICALLY ENGINEERED “DIRE WOLFS” are back after 10,000 years!! Meet Romulus and Remus!! Grey wolves with genetic edits https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475407-no-the-dire-wolf-has-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/"

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Interesting Engineering ++ Apr 8, 2025

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GENETICALLY ENGINEERED “DIRE WOLFS” are back after 10,000 years!!

Meet Romulus and Remus!! Grey wolves with genetic edits

newscientist.com

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction

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

Brian Klaas

Apr 7, 2025

With news of Colossal Biosciences creating a quasi-dire wolf, here’s my essay on the ethics and perils of de-extinction, the attempted partial resurrection of extinct species. forkingpaths.co/p/de-ex…

Apr 8

1:34 AM

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