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Have we really brought dire wolves back from extinction?

9 April 2025

1:08 AM

9 April 2025

1:08 AM

A biotech company claims it has facilitated the first howl of the dire wolf (an extinct canine) heard for 10,000 years. And there’s a video. A scientist holds up two white-coated cubs in his arms. Although their howling, really, is more like a series of yelps, they are meant to be the first of something big.

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