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Scientists Just Brought Back the Dire Wolf
A biotech company claims to have created the first modern dire wolves using 13,000-year-old DNA. Is de-extinction finally real?
Casey Cooper·

A biotech company claims to have created the first modern dire wolves using 13,000-year-old DNA. Is de-extinction finally real?

Scientists recovered 40,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing which genes were active in its final hours. This changes everything we thought we knew about extinct species.