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To: Red Badger

Canine gene sequences were changed to match a bunch of the Dire Wolf gene sequences. Not a clone. A facsimile.


4 posted on 04/07/2025 7:06:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Success if it can breed.


5 posted on 04/07/2025 7:11:56 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Canine gene sequences were changed to match a bunch of the Dire Wolf gene sequences. Not a clone. A facsimile.

That's a good way to put it. My guess is these pups will have an abnormally high number of health problems as they mature. But it's interesting as I wondered if this approach would ever be viable (I recall reading about the initial effort to bring back mammoths in high school almost 40 years ago.)

31 posted on 04/07/2025 8:28:26 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This. My science kid told me the same.


66 posted on 04/09/2025 7:47:28 AM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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