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A Texas company has brought back long-extinct dire wolf

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"Preserving, expanding, and testing genetic diversity should be done well before important endangered animal species like the red wolf are lost," said Harvard geneticist and co-founder of Colossal, D...
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Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.”

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