Joe Rogan Experience #2566 - Cody Tucker · Aired Oct 15, 2026
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A company has already brought back the dire wolf.
The finding
What the evidence shows
Colossal describes 20 edits in 14 genes in modern wolf cells, targeting selected dire-wolf traits. That is an engineered proxy, not demonstrated recovery of the extinct genome. Joe later acknowledges the technical species objection and argues for a trait-based definition; that caveat matters.
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Is it true that a company has already brought back the dire wolf?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Colossal describes 20 edits in 14 genes in modern wolf cells, targeting selected dire-wolf traits. That is an engineered proxy, not demonstrated recovery of the extinct genome. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2566 - Cody Tucker, aired Oct 15, 2026, at 1:07:56. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is colossal.com, linked below.
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