A mix of 3 and 2.
They already made modified red wolves and called them dire wolves and named them after GoT.
Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶
judgyweevil@feddit.it 5 days ago
Is Colossal: A. A legit company with a strong scientific foundation B. A total fraud C. A company that does some real research but inflates their claims in order to get more funds?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
yistdaj@pawb.social 4 days ago
They’re modified grey wolves, Colossal Biosciences had a separate project on red wolves.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
- A tragic victim of Jaime Loftus hammer crimes in Grand Rapids, MI
yistdaj@pawb.social 5 days ago
Pretty sure it’s 3, they have a history of claiming to resurrect extinct species when they’re just modifying existing species to be a little more similar to the extinct one.
They claimed to bring back dire wolves but they’re more similar to grey wolves. They make the argument that the genes they used are what most makes a dire wolf a dire wolf, but it’s controversial.
I also remember hearing they said they would bring back a population of red wolves by extracting red wolf DNA that had been absorbed into a coyote population, but seemed to ignore the existing red wolves (which could do with extra genetic diversity) and worked using coyotes as a base.