By their own admission they have modified 20 genes from a timber wolf by changing them to dire wolf gense. The problem is, timeber wolves have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. This means these creatures have 0.08% difference in genetics with a timber wolf. There is more than 0.08% genetic variation between any 2 individual timber wolves. Without question, these are 99.92% timber wolves. Calling them dire wolves is idiotic. One of the articles I read said that the white fur is a trait of dire wolves and that these wolves having white fur means they are dire wolves. This of course ignores the fact that many gray wolves have white fur. A large percentage of wolves from northern reaches of their range are white in color. Even in wolf populations where the dominant color is gray, a significant number of wolves will have snow white coats.
They didn't make dire wolves, they made gray wolves with less genetic modification than a beagle and wolf have in common.
As for their future of "making a mammoth", they will likely make an elephant with more hair than normal. I could do that with an elephant and industrial quantities of rogaine.
They didn't make dire wolves, they made gray wolves with less genetic modification than a beagle and wolf have in common.
As for their future of "making a mammoth", they will likely make an elephant with more hair than normal. I could do that with an elephant and industrial quantities of rogaine.
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