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Jacquelyn Gill, professor of terrestrial paleoecology, was featured in reports from , , , and on Colossal Biosciences’s genetic modification of gray wolf pups to resemble the dire wolf, an extinct species. “[The pups] don’t have any traits that would allow us to understand the dire wolf any better than we did yesterday,” Gill said, adding that understanding ice age organisms isn’t just a matter of knowing what they looked like or what they ate — but also about knowing what they did in those ancient ecosystems. “Some of those things are coded genetically; some of those are cultural.”