追逐幽灵狼

Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had cloned several specimens of “the most critically endangered wolf in the world.” But had it? The answer is complex— and raises pressing questions about the future of conservation. By Boyce Upholt Photographs Tristan Spinski I f you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of fog. Forty miles to the west, the industrial sprawl of Houston spawned a golden glow. Tanner Broussard’s old Toyota Tacoma bumped over the levee-top roads as killdeer, flushed from their rest, flew across the beams of his headlights. …