Marina Bolotnikova

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.”Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.”The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs.

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.”Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’t been “de-extincted.”The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Marina Bolotnikova

1 day agoThe dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, has been revived in a “de-extinction” according to scientists. On Monday (7 April), Texas-based Colossal Biosciences said they have revived the extinct species famously featured in Game of Thrones with three puppies: Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi. The company shared a video on X capturing the moment they said showed modern dire wolf puppies howling for the first time in more than 10,000 years.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on factory farming for national outlets including the Guardian, the Intercept, and elsewhere. At Vox, I specialize in writing and editing all sorts of stories about animal agriculture and the future of food, from the strange ritual of eating turkeys on Thanksgiving to the policy debates around the fate of mother pigs in the pork industry.

1 month ago | vox.com | Marina Bolotnikova

The past few years have violated many of my assumptions about human progress. Twenty-year-olds are going MAGA. More and more Americans say that women should return to their “traditional” roles in society. For some reason, we have decided to gamble with bringing back once-eradicated deadly diseases. And now, add to the list: Cow’s milk is back. Sort of.