“Jurassic Park” became a bestselling book and hit movie precisely because while its premise—that we could bring back the dinosaurs—was not possible at the time, readers and viewers knew that it would likely be achievable in the not-too-distant future due to scientific advances and breakthroughs in our study of DNA.
One company has said that the day has now arrived and that they’ve brought back to life a species that has been gone from the planet for thousands of years—the dire wolf, the larger version of today’s wolves that were made popular in the “Game of Thrones” universe.
When you read the fine print, you see that the company—Colossal Biosciences—didn’t actually bring back a 100 percent authentic dire wolf, but it is arguably pretty close:
In 2021, a separate team of scientists managed to retrieve DNA from the fossils of dire wolves,…
