By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The wonderful wolf was one of the most abundant predators in the Americas during the last ice age, and has a more courageous and more powerful body than those in modern wolves. The species with many others became extinct with the end of the ice age.
After about 13,000 years, an American company took a step aimed at restoring the esophagus wolf – regardless of television versions in the famous “Game of Thrones” series. Dallas -based biological sciences have announced the birth of three as a result of a genetically geometric wolf – all with the amazing white fur – created with the help of the old DNA obtained from the remains of reserved wolves.
The company calls terrible wolves and indicates this as the first “abolition of the mass” that succeeded in the world. The same approach can be used to revive other extinct species that are available to the old DNA, according to the company.
External experts are more cautious, as the genetically modified gray wolves describe because the process used to create them is involved in the release of the genes of these species to add terrible wolf traits. The gray wolf is the closest to the wolf.
There is a male Gowwan, called Romulus and Rimos, after the founders of the legendary Rome who were profitable by a wolf, called a female, called Khalisi in honor of the character “Game of Thrones”.
The three are all of their age compared to gray wolves, according to House of Shapiro, the chief science official in Colosal. The age of Romulus and Remos, who is six months old, is about 80 lbs (36 kg) while the age of two months, about 25 lbs (11 kg).
The company said that the wonderful wolves were greater than 25 % of gray wolves, with a slightly wider head and stronger dismantling.
The company’s scientists extracted the old DNA from the two excavations of lonely wolves – teeth from Sheridan, Ohio, about 13,000 years old, and the internal ear bone from American Fols, Idaho, about 72,000 years old.
Twenty genes of gray wolves were released with this DNA to include the terrible wolf features in the gray wolf cells. By cloning, the fetuses were created from the liberated gray wolf cells, and they were planted in alternative dog mothers. Three different dogs gave birth to puppies.
“We define a success of extinction as the restoration of functional environmental features that made terrible wolves unique in their ecosystem, and our terrible wolves are an example of this,” Shapiro said.
When asked whether it is appropriate to call soft wolves, Shapiro said: “I feel that this discussion lacks a little point.
“The communication process does not create ideal genetic copies of individual animals. It is related to the restoration of lost environmental functions and the promotion of biological diversity,” Shapiro added.
“Slight modifications”
Cori Bradcho, a professor of global ecology at the University of Flinders in Australia, has expressed doubts about the company’s announcement and the practical application to revive the extinct species.
“Yes, the wolves have been a little genetically modified, and perhaps this is the best thing you will get. It seems that these minor adjustments have been derived from the terrible wolf materials. Does this make it a harsh wolf?
Shapiro said that the puppies are thrived on a safe environmental reserve that extends more than 2000 acres (810 hectares). The company did not give the site. Shapiro said that they could eventually weigh 100 to 150 lbs (45-68 kg) and stand from 32 to 40 inches (81-102 cm) in the shoulder.
The wonderful wolves that were widespread in North and South America were one of the most successful predators in the ice age, as well as the likes of cats with patient teeth and giant bears with a short face. In North America, their fossils were discovered in the far north such as Alaska and down to southern Mexico. Several terrible wolf fossils are found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
Previous research cannot solve its evolutionary origin, causing speculation that children may be closest to them. Colossal said that the terrible high -quality wolf genome revealed that the gray wolf is the closest living relative, with 99.5 % of the DNA code with terrible wolves.
Its scientists also decided that the terrible wolf ratios appeared 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago as a result of crossbreeding between the old Canids.
“Some extinct species, such as the extreme wolf, bear a deep cultural importance to the original peoples or played important roles in the history of mankind. They can help restore their cultural heritage and traditional environmental knowledge.”
(Participated in Will Dunaham’s reports; additional reports from Joseph Campbell; edited by Rosalba Operation)
