Dire wolves once dominated ice age North America. Out competing gray wolves with sheer size and strength. They were bigger than wolves we have today. They hunted horses, bison, possibly mammoth mammoths. Colossal Biosciences used CRISPR, a gene editing technology to modify cells from a living gray wolf and mix them with DNA obtained from a 13,000-year-old direwolf skull. This is the return of American manufacturing, folks. Prehistoric wolves made in America. Next Jurassic Park. Jokes aside, imagine the potential to use this technology to save near extinct species such as the Northern White rhino, of which only two remain worldwide. (11:01–11:12)
CLAIM
Asserts that CRISPR technology was used to create genetically engineered wolf pups with dire wolf DNA.
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