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It was a spectacular meeting of fantasy and science. On Tuesday (April 8th), George RR Martin, who became the creator of the HBO success series “Games of Thrones” with his multi-part booksaga “A Song of Ice and Fire”, reported a strictly secret journey.
Already in February he had been a guest at Colossal in Dallas, a leading genetic engineering company. A photo on his “Not a blog ”blog Shows him cuddly with a white puppy: the legendary shadow wolf, which in his fantasy epic in the “Spukwald” there. lives. The real species, in turn, was considered extinct since the last ice age.
“There will be great news,” wrote Martin. “And it is not the delivery of my new book ‘The Winds of Winter’. It will be something very cool, something amazing.”
George RR Martin broke out in tears of joy
Martin is one of the first non-scientists to get to know the resurrected animals up close. “I have been silent for months now, have sworn. Now I burn it to announce it to the world. Forgive when I scream …” he wrote visibly gripped.
Ben Lamm, co -founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, had flown in to take a look at Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi. According to the US media, George would have broken out into tears of joy when he was facing the puppy that was brought to life with the help of ancient DNA.
In his blog, Martin had previously written that this wolves had had an important function within the American primeval ecosystem in addition to her mythical aura.
This visit had made it possible to be none other than star director Peter Jackson (“Lord of the Rings”), who invested parts of his not inconsiderable wealth in Colossal Bioscience. The value of the company has risen to more than $ 10 billion since the early 2020s.
You live in the secret reserve
The company explains that the white wolves were created based on the DNA of a 13,000 year old corner tooth. By crossing and genetic manipulation with the material of ancient gray wolves, hybrid creations were created, which were finally born by female hinges of the present time. Shadow wolves differ from today’s wolves by their much larger, muscular body as well as their more pronounced jaws and teeth.
The shadow wolves created in Texas are supposed to lead their new life in a secret natural reserve with (hopefully) first-class fences, certified by the American Humane Society certified and by the US Ministry of Agriculture.
Colossal’s resuscitation projects also include the wool hair mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger or the Dodo bird. Although we would almost be back in the fantasy segment or with the film fabric of “Jurassic Park”: hopefully everything will stay under control …