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Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature

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par Rich Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biogeography and Biodiversity, University of Oxford

With wildlife populations globally 73% smaller on average than in 1970 and large mammals missing from much of the world, surely there’s never been a better time to “de-extinct” species? US biotech company Colossal Biosciences Inc claimed to do just that recently by resurrecting the dire wolf from Game of Thrones (a species that also lived in our world, several thousand years ago).

The potential…

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