They took grey wolves and edited in 14 sequences recovered from a tooth and a skull. Actual direwolves were reddish brown (we have preserved specimens, complete with fur). These are direwolves in the same way your chihuahua is a desert fox. They are at best a weak hybrid. Until the company backbreeds and introduces significantly (read: a majority) more recovered dna, this is not a successful de-extinction.
They took grey wolves and edited in 14 sequences recovered from a tooth and a skull. Actual direwolves were reddish brown (we have preserved specimens, complete with fur). These are direwolves in the same way your chihuahua is a desert fox. They are at best a weak hybrid. Until the company backbreeds and introduces significantly (read: a majority) more recovered dna, this is not a successful de-extinction.