The Dire Wolf has been Recreated

[Obese Chess]

yeah, hearing them say right off the bat why they did this "a value add" i almost barfed. corporate revenue cycle speak relating to living breathing things? no thanks, there is no price to life, it is non-calculable

I agree. I am not entirely opposed to this kind of technology, and in places where human interference has drastically reduced biodiversity and caused animals to go extinct I can see this as a really good sort of "undo" button, especially as climate change and pollution continue to ramp up. But everything about this specific exercise makes me uneasy.

 

[Dust2Dust]

I don't get it when people use words like "potentially unethical". . I mean, it got a little boring waiting to see if AI was going to get out of hand and try to kill us all
, so we tossed some extinct predators into the mix. No biggie.

 

[Norm Nelson]

don't murder me…

aw yeah six hundred pounds of sin

And yeah, this is ... not a dire wolf. It's a modern canine with some archaic genes inserted. That in of itself is kind of a big deal, but I guess someone saw the need to hype this in a rather silly clickbaity way.

 

[ProbablyTooLoud]

No, but it has one wish left on it.

Riis

I waaaant my goooolden aaaarrrrm

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Jeannie, I said, was this summa' your doin's?! It kinda' sounded like one of her twisted April Fool's pranks.

 

[Dust2Dust]

The 21st Century isn't at all what I dreamed it would be. The Jetson's cartoons straight-up played me

 

[hondo4life]

How Wolf Became Dog

Scientists are racing to solve the enduring mystery of how a large, dangerous carnivore evolved into our best friend

www.scientificamerican.com

It was a wolf first. So were all other dogs….

Nope, my dog was a puppy first. I can prove it.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

The de-extinction of the dire wolf – is Jurassic Park really happening?

These wolves were extinct for 10,000 years. Now, the DNA of their ancestors has brought them back to life. Should we be thrilled or terrified that these carnivores are back in action?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Winslow]

Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Dr. Cheese]

 

[bassdude51]

Messing with genetics, messing with nature. The dire wolf thing reminded me of that old 70s TV commercial.

 

[Wood and Wire]

It will probably Pleistocene Park because they can get plenty of DNA from all of those frozen critters in Siberia with the permafrost thawing.

Plasticine Park opened decades ago :

 

[WG Plum]

 

[FilterFunk]

But some were hunted or fished to extinction, and maybe some of those could be reintroduced to everyone's benefit? Just speculating…

^This.

If we're talking about reviving a species that clearly went extinct because of direct human activity, I'm for it. But if it's basically being brought back for entertainment purposes, or just because we can...no thanks.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

^This.

If we're talking about reviving a species that clearly went extinct because of direct human activity, I'm for it. But if it's basically being brought back for entertainment purposes, or just because we can...no thanks.

That is how I feel. The world it lived in no longer exists. That said, I would love to see a full grown giant sloth!

 

[stubborne]

My Dire Wolf has no nose..

How does he smell?

Awful!!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

 

[J Wilson]

I'm waiting for sabre-toothed tigers and that 120-foot Megalodon.

 

[eeyorebass]

Also worth noting: Dire "wolves" were dogs:

Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal

The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution

www.scientificamerican.com

The Dire Dingos!!

 

[Paul New]

Messing with genetics, messing with nature. The dire wolf thing reminded me of that old 70s TV commercial.

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Humans are natural, therefore what we do is natural.