The wonders of the modern age
The wonders of the modern age
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Also the dire wolf is actually a scam that would make P. T. Barnum proud.
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The media is the problem. The geneticists aren’t trying to pass them off as dire wolves. It’s an incredible accomplishment just to successfully get through birth. We can return more recently extinct animals, like the Dodo, with this process. DNA just doesn’t last long enough to clone long extinct species without editing in the missing parts using DNA from a similar species as reference.
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Slice in some frog dna... what could go wrong
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The company itself claims they are dire wolfs. And the scientists are at least comfortable enough to lend their names to the lie.
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Best I can do is a grey wolf with 15 genes from a Dire Wolf and 5 Dire Wolf equivalent genes without the blindness and deafness from modern dogs.
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Spot on
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