Cloning concerns: Should we bring back extinct animals?


Two of the pups that were genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. — AP

IT’S the stuff of fiction.

When news broke that a biotechnology company in the United States had “successfully” cloned dire wolves, which have been extinct since the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, it, well, broke the Internet.

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