Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process
Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process
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Scientists say they revived dire wolf through biotech company's de-extinction process
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Here's a better article that isn't as uncritically sensationalist.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/de-extinction-company-announces-that-the-dire-wolf-is-back/
tl;dr is that it's basically just a gray wolf with 14 edited genes, most of which are from natural gray wolf populations rather than dire wolf genomes. The result is a gray wolf that's visually similar to a dire wolf, not a dire wolf.
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Visually similar to a GoT dire wolf. IIRC, actual Aenocyon Dirus probably didn't have a white coat.
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Yeah I was questioning it myself because dire wolves have a kinda different skull morphology compared to modern wolves. They're also quite a bit larger.
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It's a wolf. But dire.
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We gave a wolf diabetes which is pretty dire.
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