No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction | newscientist.com

Hank Green made a pretty good video on the topic. Basically, he's excited about the stuff Collosal is doing that surrounds this, but doesn't like the way they are marketing gray wolves that look like dire wolves as dire wolves

Seems to be a trend:

Clickbait headlines that are false spread.

A few days later: Headlines stating those were false

Not paywalled: https://archive.is/KjOdo

But to be fair, article author Michael Le Page isn't really human, he's just an australopithecus with a whole bunch of extra human traits.

why cant we be breeding ostriches into transportation?