[acdcguy]

De-extinction company Colossal Bioscience made famous for announcing their plans to revive serval extinct species including the Wooly Mammoth, the Dodo, and Thylacine; and who have went viral just about a month ago for producing "wooly mice" - mice genetically enhanced with the genes that make mammoths cold resistant - has claimed today to have revived the extinct canid species known as the Dire Wolf. These American canids were six-food long, 200 pound, robust pack hunters known to have taken down mammoths and mastodons during Pleistocene and disappeared roughly 12,000 years ago.

Colossal Bioscience used gene editing technology to edit the genes of a Gray Wolf to reflect the phenotypes of a Dire Wolf. Thus it is not a full species revival, but to be treated technically as a Gray Wolf x Dire Wolf hybrid, but should look exactly as what a true Dire Wolf would have looked like. The Dire Wolf pups include two males named Romulus and Remus, and a female named Khaleesi were born to a domestic dog surrogate. The mother had to undergo c-section due the size of the Dire Wolf pups. This same technology is being used to help increase the population of Red Wolves.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...of-Dire-Wolves