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De-extinction of dire wolf
April 12 , 2025
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- US based bioscience company had revived an extinct species of animal, the dire wolf.
- Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) were the large canines that dominated the southern Canada and the US before they went extinct about 13,000 years ago.
- They had resembled the grey/ gray wolves (Canis lupus) of today, but were larger, with white coats.
- The dire wolf specimens accessed from a tooth thought to be about 13,000 years old, and a 72,000-year-old skull.
- The new pups are not 100% the same as the now-extinct dire wolves.
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