Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf
Apr 8 2025, phys.org
Read ^this headline above, read it twice, then read the headlines below, because it's a good way to understand how news media works:
- Dire wolves are back from extinction. Here's how, Yahoo News
- The dire wolf, which went extinct 12,500 years ago, revived by biotech company, CBS News
- Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf, CNN News
- Scientists say they revived dire wolf through biotech company's de-extinction process, ABC News
- Scientists revive dire wolf species from 'Game of Thrones' in world's first known 'de-extinction', New York Post
- Does Colossal Biosciences' dire wolf creation justify its $10B+ valuation? TechCrunch
- Scientists Warn Dire Wolf Could Bring 'Unintended Consequences', Rolling Stone
- Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close, New York Times
And here's other, more sober, soundbites:
- Scientists genetically engineer wolves with features like extinct dire wolf, The Hill
- Has the Dire Wolf Truly Been Resurrected? We Asked the Experts, Gizmodo
- Scientists say they 'de-extincted' dire wolves. Experts at La Brea Tar Pits are skeptical, LA Times
- Colossal's de-extincted 'dire wolf' isn't a dire wolf and it has not been de-extincted, Live Science
- (another one from phys, about a week later)
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