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In a press release, the company explained that the DNA came from a dire wolf tooth, and a dire wolf skull.
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Dire wolf skulls were significantly larger than gray wolves' The dire wolf was very similar to the present-day gray wolf but was much heavier, with a larger, more robust skull.
A biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct over 10,000 years ago.
It's a fierce, majestic beast that disappeared thousands of years ago, save for artistic renderings in books and on screen, as in Game of Thrones.Or, maybe, it's just a grey wolf with a few ...
Colossal had retrieved more than 400 dire wolf skulls from the La Brea Tar Pits in California, along with a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho, extracting DNA ...
The Colossal team claims to have used a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull and a 13,000-year-old tooth to isolate real dire wolf genome sequences, then map some of that genome onto gray wolf DNA.