Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>Game of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/clones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clones</span></a>: Colossal’s new <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wolves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wolves</span></a> are cute, but are they dire?<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ColossaBiosciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColossaBiosciences</span></a> claims it has revived an <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/extinct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinct</span></a> species, but scientists outside the company are skeptical.<br>It’s making a bold new claim—that it has actually “de-extincted” an animal called the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/direwolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>direwolf</span></a>. Inside a preserve roam three striking snow-white wolves—which a startup called Colossal Biosciences says are members of a species that went extinct 13,000 years ago, now reborn via <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/biotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biotechnology</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/08/1114371/game-of-clones-colossals-new-wolves-are-cute-but-are-they-dire/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/04/0</span><span class="invisible">8/1114371/game-of-clones-colossals-new-wolves-are-cute-but-are-they-dire/</span></a></p>