Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry

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Apr 14, 2025, 1:22 pm61 pts
Last week, Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from extinction, or at least a version of one. Colossal's team used pieces of the genetic code they uncovered in ancient dire wolf DNA samples to alter the genome of a common gray wolf…

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