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Episode Date: October 11, 2025

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So I will look at the dire wolf thing, okay? They have bioengineered a dead species back to life to an extent. Not completely. New Mount Drop, exactly. The howl of a dire wolf hasn't been heard on planet Earth for more than 10,000 years. That's a long time. That's because the species is extinct, or was. Colossil Biosciences is a Dallas-based company that's using genetic engineering to de-extinct

long-gone species. And this is... I want it. Yep. I want it back. I want them back. Bring them back. The first time Colossil's dire wolf pups, who are now six months old, have been seen by the public. That's crazy. Hey Ben, it's Jeff Kluger from Time Magazine.

A pleasure to meet you. Tell me a little bit about what the goal is for de-extincting. and rewilding ultimately. Why are you... This is another step in making catgirls real. I just realized that. Holy fuck. You doing this work.

It became abundantly clear that we need new tools and technologies for conservation. And so we thought this was a really cool way that we could create value, create impact, inspire people, and then also hopefully thoughtfully rewild some of these diseases. Which apparently will also have ecological benefits to the... these different potential ecosystems. To try and do that, Colossal needed to understand dire wolves at a genetic level.

Well, yeah, that's why I was... The company has documented the process from the beginning and shared this footage with time for a cover story. This remiss is a dire wolf. Holy fuck. So we can just 3D print more white rhinos?

That seems pretty easy. Fuck. So can you tell me a little bit about what went into engineering the dire wolf. We extracted DNA from two fossils that we knew from previous work had some amount of preserved ancient DNA. One was a 13,000-year-old bone, and the other was a 72,000-year-old bone, an inner ear bone. We were able to generate two genomes, two dire wolf genome sequences from that, which we then compared to all the other wolves for which there's already been data generated. And when we do

that, we want to figure out where it is that these two dire wolves are similar to each other, but different from the other wolves that are out there. And so we come up with this list of genes where they're distinct. Now, 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 and able to fill whatever role that they filled in their... See, this is an important thing is I feel like I don't know if I fully understand this, but this seems like they're not really making a new version of Super Mario. They're emulating Super Mario on a PC.

I think that's effectively like a metaphor for what they're doing here. Their ecosystems when they were still alive. Using this knowledge, Colossel then made 20 modifications to 14 genes in the DNA of common gray wolf cells. So you make them white. These relatively few tweaks to the genetic code produce some big differences. The dire wolves white coat, large size,

characteristic vocalizations like that, howling you heard at the beginning of the story, and more. That DNA was trans- Well, can you still pet them? Like, or did they bite you now? Like, because that's what I want to, like, is this like,

because, like, you need to make it to where, like, they're like a cat. They're like a cat. They probably buy it. cells, meaning cells without their own genetic material, and then developed into embryos, and were then implanted in the wounds of surrogate mothers, who were hound-mixed dogs. What the fuck? We didn't know how big these embryos would grow and wanted to make sure that the surrogate was healthy. So we picked large dogs.

Romulus and Remus, named after the Roman mythological twin brothers who were raised by a wolf, were born on October 1st. I thought Romulus and Remus were real. But them being raised by a wolf was not real. And in January, they were joined by a younger sister that the Colossal team named Calisi. Each wolf is on track to grow to as large as six feet long and 150 pounds. Collossal isn't planning to reintroduce them to the wild. Instead, the three dire wolves will live out their lives on a fenced 2,000-acre preserve.

That's nice. Colossal does not want to disclose this location in order to protect the animals. I think these are the luckiest animals ever. They will live their entire life on this protected ecological reserve, where they have all sorts of space and they have natural denning environment and they have an inclement weather hut that they can go and hide out. And if they need to, they have a 24-hour veterinary care. Dyer wolves aren't the only species on Colossils,

The Extinction Agenda. I'm waiting. I've been waiting for a while for this. An American company says it has genetically engineered mice so that they have developed some traits like mammoths. This is, by the way, another link towards the first cat girls. This is the beginning. You might not know it, but I think that everybody will realize in time.

Small but potentially important step in a quest to eventually bring back the pre-girls. historic woolly mammoth. They hope to de-extinct the woolly mammoth as early as 2028. I wonder what it's going to taste like. The company is also hoping to bring back the dodo and the Tasmania. Yeah, I heard the dodo birds were like retarded or something, right? So like, won't they just get extinct again because they're stupid?

Yeah, I think that's what happened, right? Yeah, they're just going to get God again. I don't know if, I don't know if we need this one again. if some of this genetic tinkering feels familiar it's because hollywood has been here first why the fuck like just answer the obvious question like when are we going to get a dinosaur like i don't care about like fucking like a woolly mammoth yeah it's kind of cool but it's just like an elephant with fur right like i mean where's a fucking tyrannosaurus rex and spoiler alert we all know that didn't end well no it would end no bro like you literally just like just just just you

a rocket launcher. Like, have you ever played Turok? You can easily beat these things. It's easy, like these guys lost to a rock. So naturally, bioethicists have some concerns. When you're playing with nature, nature usually wins. Nature is much more complicated than the ability of our brains understand it. That's true. It doesn't do many things. There may be a lot of unintended consequences. Let's say we alter a gene to make extra hair or to make it burning. metabolism more, burn fat more. Those genes may do other things in ways that we just don't even understand. So we may create animals that have lots of medical problems.

If we start tinkering with genes, we may create a super mouse, a super rat that kills all the other animals around. To be fair, that's an extremely good point that he's making. And it's just, he's basically making an artificial invasive species argument, which is, I think that, yeah, of course. But the team of Colossel says their mission to restore extinct species is also about stopping the disappearance of endangered ones today. As experts predict Earth will lose 30% of its genetic diversity by 2050. Wow.

Colossil has used techniques learned from the Dyer Wolf Project to clone four red wolves, a small but important... That's not red. What are you talking about? ...step in fortifying the... that endangered species. What do they think we're stupid? The four new wolves could help inject fresh DNA into the red wolf gene pool, which currently suffers from a so-called genetic bottleneck,

the result of too few individuals carrying too little genetic variety to keep the species healthy. Yes, it would be really amazing to see a mammoth. It would be great for the habitats of Tasmania to have a Keystone predator reintroduced into that ecosystem. But the tools that we're developing on the path to these species have immediate application to species that are not yet extinct. A future that is both biodiverse and filled with people, we should be giving ourselves the opportunity to see what our big brains can do to reverse some of the bad things that we've done to the world already. There's a huge need to help prevent animals from becoming endangered and going extinct. We need to spend more money. on conservation. Particularly now, there's a lot of threats that lands that we have as national

parks and as preserves are going to be used for drilling oil for instance. I wonder if they could have one of these that like torrent, you know? Because if you took one of these and then you put it together with like a goat or a horse, you probably have like torrent like an elven ring. Probably like a goat because goats can jump, right? And so there's a lot of habitats where species now live that are going to be under threat. And there's not enough money to help with conservation efforts. There'll be next generation of die walls. Naturally is not known yet? Well, yeah, obviously.

Classibility sign. Yeah, wow. What the fuck? Okay. So, like, how the fuck did you go through this and not talk about dinosaurs? Like, this is really cool. It's definitely cool that they have these dogs, right? Like, these are really cool. But, like, where are the dinosaurs? That's what we need to know about, right? They did. Well, they didn't explain, like, when they're going to happen, right? Because, like, that's what I'm wondering is, like, when are the dinosaurs going to happen?

Like, you have these as well, right? I mean, you can go and look at, like, look at this one, right? Like, you've got plenty of these dinosaurs right here. And, like, you're telling me the best that you can do is the dog? No, man. Like, I think we could do way better than that. What about a long boy? Yeah, like, I mean, we get.

get plenty of long boys here like what about them like you got so many of these it could happy baby steps i i know i know i know but i want to have i want it i want it to happen dinosaurs can't happen because the dna's gone no just do it just do it anyway like they can just make it up like you know what they look like i mean fuck just go ahead put them together yeah make it happen why not and like you look at some of these dinners look at that would be crazy bro like i i like we need a triceratops that's the main one that I want and if you could have those I wonder if you could ride them

that's the big question right is like if you could ride to triceratops that would be fucking crazy I would love that Thank you.