A warning from the Toronto Zoo CEO: Resurrecting the extinct dire wolf is an ‘incredibly dangerous’ move that comes with ‘enormous’ risk

Dire wolf scientists should know “de-extinction” is a fool’s errand (Opinion)

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome, meticulously reconstructed by Colossal from ancient DNA.” Experts in p…

‘De-extinction’ is a fool’s errand

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome, meticulously reconstructed by Colossal from ancient DNA.” Experts in p…

US firm says it brought back extinct dire wolves

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species.

​Dire efforts: On de-extinction and conservation

Spending money on speculative projects, such as de-extinction, whose benefits, if there are any, will fructify only over centuries, takes away resources from immediate conservation efforts

De-extinction or pre-extinction? Biotech company's resurrected 'dire wolves' raise questions

Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in the first place.

Should we be bringing back extinct species? Ethical concerns raised after dire wolf allegedly resurrected

The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists say there are ethical concerns.