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Dire Wolf Resurgence Debate

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Instead of 'de-extincting' dire wolves, scientists should use gene editing to protect living, endangered species

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Biotech company Colossal claims to have resurrected the dire wolf using cloning and gene-editing technologies.

Peter Bergen : The concept of de-extinction is a lightning rod for criticism, but legal ramifications for endangered species conservation are of paramount importance.

He says Colossal 's functional species concept is anathema to the Endangered Species Act . It shrinks the value of a species down to how it looks or the way it functions.

Colossal has announced it has cloned a red wolf .

Unlike the dire wolf, the red wolf is not extinct, though it came extremely close.

The entire population of red wolves descends from merely 14 founders of the captive breeding program.

Hybrid organisms are typically not protected under the Endangered Species Act .

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