9 April 2025, 09:54

By Heather Browning

The debate over de-extinction misses the point: Are these animals’ welfare needs being met?

In the wake of the recent announcement from Colossal Biosciences that they have ‘resurrected’ the dire wolf, there has been a lot of (justified) pushback on whether what they’ve created is truly a dire wolf, as opposed to a slightly modified ‘dire-like’ wolf. But this debate might be missing the most important question about this (and similar) projects: Are these animals’ welfare needs actually being met?

We’ve heard little about how the wolves are being housed or raised. And there’s good reason to worry that they can’t be provided with........

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