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Scientists did NOT bring dire wolves back from extinction

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Colossal Biosciences recently claimed to have brought dire wolves back from extinction. They didn't, and in this video we discuss some of the problems with their claim. Check out @MinuteEarth's video "Are We Really 99% Chimp?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbY122CSC5w Sources: Perri AR, Mitchell KJ, Mouton A, Álvarez-Carretero S, Hulme-Beaman A, Haile J, Jamieson A, Meachen J, Lin AT, Schubert BW, Ameen C. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature. 2021 Mar 4;591(7848):87-91. Van Valkenburgh B, Sacco T. Sexual dimorphism, social behavior, and intrasexual competition in large Pleistocene carnivorans. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 2002 Mar 14;22(1):164-9. Canis Gene Counts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annotation_euk/Canis_lupus_dingo/102/ https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000805418 BBC: Experts dispute claim dire wolf brought back from extinction https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ejy3gdvo Time: The Return of the Dire Wolf https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/ Time: The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf https://time.com/7275439/science-behind-dire-wolf-return/