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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction (www.newscientist.com)
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[โ€“] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean you can still hold onto them. Maybe someday we'll get lucky and find a perfectly preserved, freshly fed mosquito, and then BAM! Dino DNA.

[โ€“] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Nope, dna has a half-life, sorry!