The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn

The ‘return’ of an extinct wolf is not the answer to saving endangered species, experts warn

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire wolf, a species that hasn’t roamed the Earth for several millennia. Now, the Trump administration is ci…

Conservations Say 'De-Extinction' Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species

There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a "de-extinction" of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). "But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific research," writes the Chicago T...

Return of the Dire Wolf?

File:Dire wolf National Park Service illustration.png, opens a new window by NPS illustration by Benji Paysnoe / public domain, opens a new window / nonepainted illustration of a Dire Wolf from the National Park Service courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Last week, Colossal Biosciences revealed that they had brought back the Dire Wolf from extinction through the science of genetic engineering. This created quite the kerfuffle online, as everyone want…

Yes, the shadow wolf from "Game of Thrones" really existed, up to about 13,000 years before our time, then he died out. By the way, he is not directly related to the grey wolf, the two belong to two different genera. House bitches now helped the shadow wolf to triple rebirth. He is the first prehistoric animal that returns to us by researcher hand. In the queue still stand the Tasmanian bag wolf and the mammoth. Symbol image: white wolf Three sh…