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    1. New_Scientist_Mag on

      The dire wolf is “the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”, Colossal Biosciences claimed on 7 April. And many people seemed to believe it. *New Scientist* was one of the few media outlets to [reject the claim](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475407-no-the-dire-wolf-has-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/), pointing out that the animals created by Colossal are just grey wolves with a few gene edits.

      Now, in a subsequent interview, Colossal’s chief scientist Beth Shapiro appears to agree. “It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive. Our animals are grey wolves with 20 edits that are cloned,” she tells *New Scientist*. “And we’ve said that from the very beginning. Colloquially, they’re calling them dire wolves and that makes people angry.”[](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535300-700-a-whole-new-world-of-tiny-beings-challenges-fundamental-ideas-of-life/)

    2. Squiddlywinks on

      They always admitted this. It was only headlines claiming they had.

      They’ve been upfront from the beginning that all they did was alter some genes to give them traits that direwolves had

    3. pethris on

      I know its the name of the company, but this article title reads as if it was just one extremely huge scientist that made the wolves out of clay like Prometheus or something

    4. PhiloLibrarian on

      They hadn’t actually cloned a dire wolf to begin with that was just what the media picked up on… too many Game of Thrones fans with poor information literacy skills in “journalism” these days I guess…

    5. FridgeParade on

      I was downvoted into oblivion when I pointed out this exact thing back then :/

    7. LordByronsCup on

      After this, can we really believe they’re a „colossal“ scientist?

      We’re gonna need your height and weight, buddy.

    8. thedreaming2017 on

      Wasn’t this claim immediately debunked by pretty much everyone almost immediately and only now they admit they really didn’t do it? We already know and we’ve moved on, now make us an anime cat waifu already! /s

    9. mikiencolor on

      What we did make, though, is a lot of advertising revenue. Thanks, suckas. 😎🐺

    12. bluvasa on

      I don’t think it is any less amazing that they analyzed the differences between Dire wolf DNA and then made the appropriate changes in a modern wolf genome.

      The end result is a modern proxy with Dire wolf-like features. If it looks like a Dire wolf, howls like a Dire wolf, then why can’t then what is wrong with calling it that?

      Their methods were well publicized from the start. Why the gotcha headline?

    14. Fappy_as_a_Clam on

      Didnt they always say that they were grey wolves that had had genes edited?

      I swear I listened to a podcast and they said just that, but maybe I’m wrong.

      At any rate, it’s still bonkers cool, and I *really* hope I see a mammoth and/or tasmanian tiger before I die, even if they aren’t *technically* the „real“ thing.

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