Dire Wolf 'died out' no more? Experts doubt the return of Game of Thrones Beast | Today news

‘Extinction is still forever’, the paleogeneticist Dr. Nic Rawlence of Otago University in New Zealand responded to the ‘De Extension’ of the Game of Thrones-famous, bad wolf. Colossal biosciences in Texas made headlines to revive a species that became extinct by genetic engineering almost 12,500 years ago. It announced that it used ‘Deft Genetic Engineering and Ancient DNA’ to breed three dire wolf puppies – Romulus, Remus and Khalesi – and to “decompose” the species. However, independent scientists, such as zoologist Philip Seddon, said the animals are not really serious wolves, but ‘genetically modified gray wolves’. Experts told BBC News that there were ‘important biological differences’ between the ‘de-emitted’ wolf on the cover of each news publication and the serious wolf that swept around during the last ice age and extinct centuries ago. Dr Rawlence explained that the ancient dire wolf -Dna – extracted from fossilized remains – was degraded and damaged to be biologically copied or cloned. “Antique DNA is like if you are fresh DNA in a 500 -degree oven overnight,” Dr Rawlence told BBC News. ‘It comes out fragmented – like shards and dust. You can reconstruct [it]But it’s not good enough to do anything else. “How does it matter? Dire wolves,” she said. But dr. Rawlence argued that the De Extension team at Colossal Biosciences used new synthetic biological technology to create a dire wolf-like animal, and not the Ice Age itself. He said they chased pieces of DNA and placed them in the genetic code of a living animal with the entire biological blueprint, in this case, a gray wolf. “Produced is a gray wolf, but it has some serious wolf -like features, such as a larger skull and white fur,” says Dr Rawlence. ” 2.5 to six million years ago deviated from gray wolves. “It is in a completely different generation than gray wolves.” “Colossal compared the consuming of the dire wolf and the gray wolf, and of about 19,000 genes, they determined that 20 changes in 14 genes gave a serious wolf,” he told BBC News. forever “.” If we have not extinct, how are we going to learn from our mistakes? Is the message now that we can destroy the environment and that animals can die out, but we can bring it back? “He asks.