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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.
If you interested, here is a 15-minute clip from the most recent Joe Rogan podcast with one of the founders of the company that is bringing back the Direwolf. In the video they show quite a few pictures of the 3 young pups at various ages and how they acquired the DNA to even attempt to bring them back to life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ5Dwh5S5l0
So they're bringing back dire wolves but not their prey? Intelligent morons.
Very good point.
The old cut and paste is back.
You don’t disappoint.
“Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.”
Absolute wise words there and fact. I feel the same about a lot of things. AI is one of those other things this same principle applies towards.
Why Red, why ??
Like Tribbles ?
“The old cut and paste is back”
Not “cut and paste”.
“The old cut and paste is back.
You don’t disappoint.”
The old troll is back.
You don’t disappoint.
Thanks for the pings!
I guess you didn’t watch Jurassic Park.
A couple of breeders on the left coast are breeding a dog they call the American Alsatian, which they liken to the resurrection of the dire wolf.
It’s basically a 125%-scale GSD that’s a big pussy-cat.
https://kingsleykennels.com/dire-wolf-project/the-american-alsatian/
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Thanks for the link to the video. They’re beautiful!! Hope they have good, healthy lives.
I was about to post the same thing.
It is supposedly the first book in a series featuring the female CBI agent AND the older, white, sheriff closing in on retirement age. I loathed her, he was okay, but not fleshed out enough.
It was SOOO structured like Jurassic Park that they even made the "not like Jurassic Park" joke in the novel! It was basically Jurassic Park with more do-able science.
Yay!!!!
Someone heard me begging for this!!!!
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Watched that solely for the Dobermans.
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You realize that this means GOT took place in America because Dire Wolves only existed here.
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