The Clever Wolf Is Putting His Wits to the Test 👀 Bedtime Stories for Kids

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Before we began the de-extinction of the dire wolf, we asked a paleo artist to reconstruct what they might have looked like. They chose red, which was a fair guess since mammoths carried reddish hair. But at that point, we didn’t actually know. The part of the genome that reveals coat color had not yet been sequenced by us or by anyone else claiming “dire wolves were red.” When we finally did sequence it, both of the two higher-coverage DNA samples pointed to light-colored coats. That does not m