Dire wolves are back. Or so claims the US biotech company Colossal Biosciences. In April this year it announced the birth of three grey wolf pups whose DNA had been genetically edited to more closely resemble the extinct megafauna. Such massive creatures have not roamed the Earth for millennia. Yet if the experience of their smaller relatives is anything to go by, they wouldn’t receive a warm welcome.
In Europe, attitudes towards wolves are as complex as ever. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in the ...
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