CBC News: A biotech company has, sort of, revived the long-extinct dire wolf

Colossal says two male pups, Romulus and Remus, were born on Oct. 1 — putting them now in the early stages of adolescence — while Khaleesi, a female, was born on Jan. 30, and is almost at the age where she can be “introduced to the boys,” Shapiro said.

Kevin Campbell, a professor at the University of Manitoba’s Department of Biological Sciences, says while the pups look very much like dire wolves, it’s hard to know how similar they are physiologically.

“They edited 20 different mutations… which affected 14 genes. And to put this in perspective, a wolf probably has 22- or 23,000 different genes,” he said. “Right now what we have is a 99.999 per cent grey wolf, with .001 per cent dire wolf.”

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