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Long after three wolf dogs were saved from a fur and urine farm in northeastern Ohio, the industry remains unregulated.
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.
According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences used to obtain dire wolf DNA. The other piece was from a ...
The island, which doubles as a national park, offers scientists a rare chance to observe wolves and moose in their natural ...
By analyzing ancient DNA from fossils, including a 13,000-year-old tooth found in Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull found in Idaho, Colossal scientists reconstructed the dire wolf genome to a 91 ...
For context, the gray wolf—the closest living relative of the dire wolf—has a genome of about 2.45 billion base pairs (the fundamental building blocks of DNA).