~~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.~~
Edit: nvm. Yeah they lyin'.
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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.
It's still fascinating and tremendously difficult, and probably the best we can hope for in a very long time, but I don't feel Colossal are being totally honest in their presentation.
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.
The first species we Jurassic Parked are dire wolves?!
I swear humans are trying to speedrun their own demise.
There’s at least historical evidence of humans being able to re-extinct them if need be…
Yeah if there’s one things Humans excel at it’s killing things.
We are dire hominids, after all
I have it on good authority that life… uh… finds a way
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!
Yeah, maybe try the Dodo first or something else less dangerous than a giant wolf, right?
Since they went extinct they really were in dire need of resurrection.
Daaaad
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.
Wolves are smart and dangerous enough. Do we really want packs of giant ones roaming the woods
How about some giant sloths
We all know they weren't extinct, at least if you follow the secret of the skinwalker ranch :P
~~De-extincted~~ Reanimated
I want ~~one~~ several.
The Dire Wolves died out for a reason. why are we bringing back a pack animal whose climate no longer exists?
Shits and giggles.