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Colossal Biosciences resurrects long-extinct dire wolf

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Colossal Biosciences has produced three dire wolf pups using genetic editing and cloning.

The pups are named Romulus and Remus , after the founders of Rome who were raised by wolves.

Dire wolves went extinct around 12,000 years ago , at the end of the last ice age .

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