{"id":13718,"date":"2025-04-10T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:29:58","slug":"dont-murder-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/10\/dont-murder-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Murder Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7275439\/science-behind-dire-wolf-return\/?utm_source=beehiiv&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&amp;_bhlid=730fb358a65eaab817d54fde7af66048e820dbc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from TIME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/jeffrey-kluger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeffrey Kluger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPX4tm-J2bU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature gave the world the dire wolf\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/dire-wolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2.6 million years ago<\/a>, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away\u2014some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the dire wolf is back, brought bounding into the 21st century by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colossal Biosciences<\/a>, a Dallas-based biotech company. On April 8,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7274542\/colossal-dire-wolf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colossal announced it<\/a>\u00a0had used both cloning and gene-editing based on two ancient samples of dire wolf DNA to birth three pups, the six-month-old males Romulus and Remus and the two-month-old female Khaleesi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,\u201d said Colossal CEO Ben Lamm in a statement that accompanied the announcement of the births. \u201cIt was once said, \u2018any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\u2019 Today, our team gets to unveil some of the magic they are working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7275439\/science-behind-dire-wolf-return\/?utm_source=beehiiv&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&amp;_bhlid=730fb358a65eaab817d54fde7af66048e820dbc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf by\u00a0Jeffrey Kluger Nature gave the world the dire wolf\u00a02.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away\u2014some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the dire wolf is back, brought bounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}