Daily Dive # 203 | Has De-Extinction Brought Back the Dire Wolf?

Meet Beth Shapiro, she’s chief scientist at Colossal Biosciences. She’s working towards the functional de-extinction of dire wolves and other extinct species. After looking at dire wolf DNA extracted from fossils, the team at Colossal rewrote the genetic code of grey wolves to more closely match it, leading to the successful birth of two male pups, Romulus and Remus, and one female, Khaleesi.