Posted on 04/07/2025 10:34:20 AM PDT by Pollard
For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction. Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.”
In 2021, a separate team of scientists managed to retrieve DNA from the fossils of dire wolves, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago. With the discovery of additional DNA, the Colossal researchers have now edited 20 genes of gray wolves to imbue the animals with key features of dire wolves. They then created embryos from the edited gray-wolf cells, implanted them in surrogate dog mothers and waited for them to give birth.
The result is three healthy wolves — two males that are 6 months old and one female that is 2 months old, named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi — that have some traits of dire wolves.
They are big, for one thing, and have dense, pale coats not found in gray wolves. Colossal, which was valued at $10 billion in January, is keeping the wolves on a private 2,000-acre facility at an undisclosed location in the northern United States.
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Income possibilities (payer)
Restoring recently lost species, namely those killed off by man (donors or paid for by lawsuits)
Gene banks for all the species of a country (country pays)
Gene bank for your beloved pet so it can be reproduced to replace one that died (consumer) creepy
Maybe one day growing a human organ to replace one that’s failing (consumer/hospitals/health care)
Oh, and the CIA is one of their donors (fedgov) creepy/scary
And you fell for it.
I knew you couldn’t stand the idea of a citizen taking a long shot and getting away with it.
Just surprised I didn’t get any cut and paste self righteous info on how fbi snipers are immune to prosecution.
Out of all the FReepers, I knew you would be unable to stand reading the stupid comment I posted.
Hope I made your day better.
How do they confirm that the precipitating relics are from the dire wolf?
“Hope I made your day better”
The old troll is back.
You don’t disappoint
Fishing has never been so easy.
Skull & teeth shape and carbon dating. Some archeology societies go by teeth alone when deciding mammal species.
Seems like speculation built on speculation to me.
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