An article in Time claims that three dire wolf pups have been born. Yet, independent experts argue that they are grey wolves with edits to their DNA to make them resemble the genome of the dire wolf.
Ancient DNA was used to identify key segments of code that they could edit into the grey wolf.
'So what... has [been] produced is a grey wolf, but it has some dire wolf-like characteristics, like a larger skull and white fur... It's a hybrid,' Dr Nic Rawlence, director of the Otago University palaeogenetics laboratory in New Zealand, told BBC News. 'It comes out fragmented – like shards and dust.'