Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced it has successfully created three dire wolf pups using ancient DNA and gene-editing technology. The company extracted DNA from fossils up to 72,000 years old to recreate the extinct species, which disappeared about 12,500 years ago.
Scientists: Dire wolf brought back from extinction
Janice B
I just read an article about this, and it is truly awesome, but how to re-wild these extinct species? That is the real question.
Now, if we could get some solid Sasquatch male nuclear DNA, what could we get from that? Any surrogate mom volunteers out there?
Matthew W
Why does the military or the men in black fly off the Sasquatch remains after a killing? They have the dna. No doubt experiments will be conducted in an effort to create a super soldier, that can withstand the cold and has very big feet. What volunteers, if they need a surrogate mom, they will snatch her off the street. They can always say, yeah, poor girl, she was deported.
Rodger f
I don’t know if this is a good thing. We might accidentally bring back some disease we have no immunity to. It’s amazing but scary at the same time.
Charles R
Dire wolves have been seen around the Skinwalker Ranch, where do they come from, although they may have exited portals, so possibly somewhere they exist. Something happened at the end of the last ice age which caused a great percentage of the North American and Euopean into Asia megafauna to die off and go extinct. I know some researchers point to the Younger Dryass period of about 1500 years os a time of great calamity on this planet. It is amazing that right now we can bring these species back to life, be that good or bad. However I do not think I would want to walk some forest trail and come across an 800 pound sabretooth cat.
Matthew W
This is a grey wolf tweaked to look like a dire wolf in appearance. How does the lady interviewed know how dire wolves behave or how these tweaked grey wolves will behave? Her declarations are unsupported by any evidence. The woolly mamouth they are working on, will that be a tweaked hairy African elephant?
Matthew W
The extracted dna from 72000 year old fossils was not somehow added to the dna of the grey wolf. The grey wolf’s dna, at certain locations was ‘edited’. To produce a grey wolf that resembles a dire wolf. The old dna was used as a guide in deciding where to perform the edits. The fact that they produced live grey wolf cubs ithat look like dire wolves does not mean that they brought back an extinct species.