{"id":45032,"date":"2025-04-23T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45032\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:53:11","slug":"colossals-dire-wolf-de-extinction-criticised-by-conservation-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45032\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal&#8217;s dire wolf &#8216;de-extinction&#8217; criticised by conservation group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_248535993.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2477773\" data-caption=\"A gene-edited grey wolf created by Colossal Biosciences\" data-credit=\"Colossal Biosciences\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A gene-edited grey wolf created by Colossal Biosciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Colossal Biosciences<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The creation of genetically modified grey wolves that are claimed to resemble extinct dire wolves has been criticised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<\/p>\n<p>Colossal Biosciences, a US company aiming to \u201cde-extinct\u201d several species with gene-editing technology, announced earlier this month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canids.org\/resources\/CSG%20gene%20editing%20in%20wild%20canids.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement put out by the IUCN expert group on canids<\/a> \u2013 wolves\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gene-edited grey wolf created by Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences The creation of genetically modified grey wolves that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,3928,24811,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-45032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-conservation","10":"tag-genetic-modification","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389739538907941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}