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Scientists who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent smear campaign to discredit them. (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (7 children)

Figures. If these shysters at Colossal had any integrity, they wouldn't be calling their modified gray wolves "dire wolves" in the first place. Everything Colossal says about their dire wolf project is misleading or just plain bullshit. They're not "de-extincting" anything. They're making a larger breed of gray wolf. But that doesn't sound sexy enough to set them up for a cash-grab IPO.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

so essentially Colossal is InGen.

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