A biosciences company has revived a species of rare wolves that went extinct thousands of years ago. The dire wolf, often associated with the Game of Thrones, was a real animal that lived across the Americas, as well as parts of Asia and Europe, more than 10,000 years ago.
Colossal Biosciences, based out of Dallas, Texas, has succeeded in bringing back three of the wolves — two brothers — Remus and Romulus — and now, a younger sister named Khalessi. The CEO of the firm, Ben Lamm, revealed the dire wolf success in a talk Monday with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience. The wolves are not yet hunting, but they have a 2,000-acre preserve — at an undisclosed American location — where they are free to roam.
“I could not be more proud of the team. This massive milestone is the first of many coming examples demonstrating that our end-to-end de-extinction technology stack works,” Lamm said. “Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies. It was once said, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Today, our team gets to unveil some of the magic they are working on and its broader impact on conservation.”
Colossal Biosciences is working on reviving other extinct species, notably the woolly mammoth.
Riss Flex reports more trouble has surfaced for Hollywood elites. She says Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman in a New York night club and Joseph Gatt, from Game of Thrones, has been arrested for sex crimes against a child.
Flex also reports David Frodsham, a former top-level civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, was arrested in Arizona for leading a child sex abuse ring. Meanwhile, Flex warns that Judge Christopher Cooper might just have landed on the Hillary Clinton hit list after denying her campaign lawyer’s request to drop his Durham indictment. Here are the details on these stories, plus more.
George R.R. Martin, author of The Game of Thrones, has thrown a monkey wrench toward the social justice warrior crowd. He’s refusing to bow down to them. They are miffed at Martin because he mispronounced a few names of new radical writers and professed that he preferred some of the older authors anyway. Doesn’t seem like much cause to get upset, but listen to the SJWs. More from Geeks + Gamers.
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At long last: The White Wolf is coming to television!
The, uh… the actual one: Elric of Melnibone, the fictional hero of Michael Moorcook’s vintage sword and sorcery novels that first appeared in 1961.
This is among the major works that spawned Game of Thrones and so many latter-day fantasies. More from RazorFist.
Ghostbusters, Game of Thrones, Oceans 8, Achilles, Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Scott are just some examples of how the quest for diversity in film and television (“woke” media) has affected the content we watch. But is diversity – at all costs – a strength in fiction? More from Lauren Chen.
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George “Storm” DiCostanza and Paul Sabourin, with help from a few friends, implore fantasy author George R.R. Martin to “write like the wind” and finish his Game of Thrones books. Formerly with the a cappella group Da Vinci’s Notebook, DiCostanza and Sabourin hail from Arlington, Virginia. They’ve carved out a niche for themselves in the realm of nerd musical comedy, achieving great success with their WookieeLeaks project, employing Twitter to reveal secrets from Star Wars. H/T IMAO
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