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Old 04-16-2025, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by daniel200 View Post
According to a Science Friday podcast, the dire wolf DNA is 99.5% the same as a gray wolf. That means about 5 million DNA base pairs are different. The scientist used CRISPR technology to insert 14 DNA base pairs that were removed from viable dire wolf DNA.

So these pups still have about 5 million DNA differences (just 14 less than before)
So, kinda like a gray wolf whose great to the 10th power, parent cross bred with a dire wolf, thousands of years ago. So, am I, or you, Homosapian, or Neanderthal, or Cro-magnon?