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Scientists bring dire wolf species back from extinction

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Colossal's gene editing advances allowed them to harvest ancient DNA from real dire wolves fossils – a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull – and create dire wolf genomes.
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Colossal managed to resurrect it by editing snippets of the gray wolf’s gene sequence that were most divergent between the two related species.
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