Aenocyon_skeletal_mount_NHMLA Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesArchaeologyPaleontologyScience ReportingTechnology Tagged , base pairs, biotech, Canis lupus, clicks, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, DNA editing, elephant, fur, gene editing, gray wolves, headlines, media, New Scientist, puffery, Rolling Stone, woolly mammoth Dire Wolves Are Still Extinct Wesley J. Smith April 9, 2025 Archaeology, Paleontology, Science Reporting, Technology 3 Let’s call it puffery. The company was careful to acknowledge that the dire wolf is not actually back but that the pups are “functional equivalents.” Read More ›
Recovered_Dire_Wolf_skulls_DSC_2019u_(23255605303) Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesArchaeologyIntelligent DesignPaleontology Tagged , applications, biology, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, evolutionary biologists, Game of Thrones, genes, George R. R. Martin, gray wolves, immaterial genome, Mike Snider, Neil Shubin, physical genome, Richard Sternberg, USA Today Cold Water on “Dire Wolves” David Klinghoffer April 9, 2025 Archaeology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology 2 "These are not dire wolves," says evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. "These are gray wolves with 20 edited genes." Read More ›
Mammoth Type post Author Rob Sheldon Date April 5, 2023 CategoriesEcologyEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Rob Sheldon April 5, 2023 Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology 6 The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›
