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Is ‘de-extinction’ really possible? – podcast

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American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age .

But does what the company has done amount to de-extinction’ or should we instead think of these pups as genetically modified versions of the grey wolves that exist today ?.

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