While not the gigantic uber-canines of fantasy lore, these pups will become roughly-gray-wolf-sized dire wolves, and represent the first de-extincted animal species, raising a number of ethical questions about returning animals to ecosystems that may not be stable for long.
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oneseveral.The first species we Jurassic Parked are dire wolves?!
I swear humans are trying to speedrun their own demise.
Yeah, maybe try the Dodo first or something else less dangerous than a giant wolf, right?
There’s at least historical evidence of humans being able to re-extinct them if need be…
I have it on good authority that life… uh… finds a way
Yeah if there’s one things Humans excel at it’s killing things.
We are dire hominids, after all
Nah, it’s cool. If they become a problem we just de-extinct dire gorillas to fight them. What could go wrong?
Well they’ll probably team up and then we’ll have to build mecha-gorillas and mecha-dire-wolves to fight them. And we haven’t even talked about who’s going to direct.
Crazy thought, but hear me out: we put Spielberg and Bay in the mechs and let them fight over it. We’ll have so much good footage for the edit!
We all know they weren’t extinct, at least if you follow the secret of the skinwalker ranch :P
Since they went extinct they really were in dire need of resurrection.
Daaaad
The Dire Wolves died out for a reason. why are we bringing back a pack animal whose climate no longer exists?
Shits and giggles.
Wolves are smart and dangerous enough. Do we really want packs of giant ones roaming the woods
How about some giant sloths
I was thinking this was bs - like they just bred a big, wolf-like dog and called it a dire wolf. But no! They took genetic material from dire wolf remains and made dire wolf puppies! Wow. That’s pretty wild.
You were right the first time - they’re CRISPR-edited gray wolves engineered to exhibit the physical traits they found in dire wolf DNA.
There’s an 80-gene difference between dire wolves and gray wolves, and they’ve modified 14 of what they felt to be the most variant differences.
Damn. You’re right. Those journalists were sneaky slipping in this quote and not challenging/clarifying it:
“We took a 13,000-year-old tooth, and a 74,000-year-old skull, and we made puppies,” Lamm told The Debrief.
In the backwoods of Fennario, the black and bloody mire, the dire wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire.
Winter is coming.
