They brought them back from extinction after 10,000 years?? | Asmongold TV
October 7, 2026
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5 min readThey brought them back from extinction after 10,000 years??
For the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf has been heard on Earth. Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetic engineering company, has brought back the extinct species — or something close to it. Three dire wolf pups, now six months old, were born in late 2024 and early 2025: Romulus and Remus on October 1st, followed by a younger sister named Khaleesi in January. The company documented the entire process and shared the footage with Time magazine for a cover story.
How they engineered a dire wolf
Colossal extracted ancient DNA from two fossils — a 13,000-year-old bone and a 72,000-year-old inner ear bone. From those samples, they generated two dire wolf genome sequences. By comparing those sequences to all other known wolf genomes, they identified the specific genes where dire wolves were similar to each other but different from other wolves. As the company explained, "Our goal in the Dire Wolf project, just like with all de-extinction projects, is to re-engineer the core traits, the core characteristics that made these extinct species unique."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:08) **Bioengineering a Dire Wolf Back to Life** - Colossal Biosciences has used genetic engineering to create the first dire wolf pups after 10,000 years of extinction.
- 2 (01:29) **The Goal: Conservation Through De-Extinction** - Colossal's founder explains the mission to create new tools for conservation and inspire rewilding.
- 3 (03:36) **The "Emulation" Critique of the Process** - The host compares the genetic recreation to emulating Super Mario on a PC, not making a new version.
- 4 (04:41) **The Birth and Life of the Pups** - Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi are now six months old and living on a 2,000-acre preserve.
- 5 (06:30) **The Broader De-Extinction Agenda** - Colossal is also working on woolly mammoths, dodos, and Tasmanian tigers.
- 6 (07:56) **The Obvious Question: When Will We Get Dinosaurs?** - The host presses for dinosaurs, arguing that a woolly mammoth is just "an elephant with fur."
- 7 (08:30) **Bioethical Concerns About Unintended Consequences** - A bioethicist warns that nature is more complicated than our brains understand.
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