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“Maybe we can make these animals again, and that’s cool, but what are we gonna do with them?” she says. “Where are we gonna ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

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Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

Cloning has been used to briefly bring back the pyrenean ibex , which went extinct in 2000. In 2003, a Spanish team brought a cloned calf to term, but the animal died a few minutes after birth.

"On the other hand, they seem to be closer to dire wolves than anything else anybody's seen for 13,000 years, and that's pretty cool ... mammoths and other extinct animals.