Dire Wolf
"We've taken a gray wolf genome, a gray wolf cell. which is already genetically 99.5% identical to dire wolves because they're very closely related," Shapiro said. "And we've edited those cells at multiple places in its DNA sequence to contain the dire wolf version of the DNA."
It's interesting they look like they are at the beginning of bringing back extinct species. I don't think it's too far off in time before they start bringing back some of the dogs that went extinct or if not in their entirety very close.
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Quite true - they are already working on bringing back the woolly mammoth - let's hope they leave the saber tooth tigers and dinosaurs alone.
But - some are already selling Dire Wolf pups - lol.
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The real story about their recreation is at this link https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dire-wolf-extinct-dna-puppies-colossal-biosciences/. Colossal Biosciences is the Dallas based company the "recreated" the Dire Wolf.