It’s Bigger Than “Dire Wolves” and “De-Extinction”

With much controversy swirling around Colossal’s proxy “dire wolves,” we spoke with the company’s CEO Ben Lamm and Chief Science Officer Beth Shapiro to find out what exactly the company has done to create these animals, and what so-called “de-extinction” technology could mean for the thousands of endangered species fighting for survival.

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0:00 Are Dire Wolves really back?
0:45 Romulous and Remus
1:21 Can gene-edited grey wolves can be accurately called “dire-wolves?
2:07 How does gene editing work
4:14 Why focus on extinct species rather than the species here on Earth
6:03 The Mammoth, the Dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger
7:00 Question still loom about “de-extinction”

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