Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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We brought back the dire wolf.
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What the evidence shows
Joe Rogan makes this claim. Colossal produced living wolves by making twenty edits across fourteen genes in a modern gray-wolf genetic background. Its own technical account describes reconstructing selected dire-wolf traits. That is a real engineering achievement, but the documented procedure does not restore an entire extinct dire-wolf genome or establish an identical revived species. The alien-engineering story that follows is hypothetical.
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Is it true that we brought back the dire wolf?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Joe Rogan makes this claim. Colossal produced living wolves by making twenty edits across fourteen genes in a modern gray-wolf genetic background. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 2:05:52. The supporting source is colossal.com, linked below.
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