Three direwolf pups are born: but what is the truth about them?

Colossal Biosciences Reports Birth of Three Species of a Species That Disappeared 12,000 Years Ago Colossal Biosciences Inc., the $10 billion Dallas-based biotechnology company that announced last March the creation of a mouse with woolly mammoth fur, has taken another step in its quest to revive species that disappeared thousands of years ago. This Monday, it announced the birth of three specimens of dire wolves, a species that became extinct 1…

Colossal Biosciences is well known for its experiments in which they want to resurrect long-extinct animals. For example, the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, or even the dire wolf. In principle, this would be possible because the bodies of many animals that died during the last ice age did not decompose, but were frozen in permafrost or in some other way, but their genetic material survived, which could be used to resurrect them. However,…