Dire wolf brought back from extinction

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/07/science/dire-wolf-de-extinction-cloning-colossal

Which species could be next?

Please be trex

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From what I’ve read, this is vastly overstated. It’s like splicing a person’s genome to give them a large forehead and insisting you’ve brought back Neanderthals.

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Now the world needs some sabertooth kittens to go with our new puppies.

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Actually, this video more or less says the same thing.

It appears that they simply created some dogs with distinctly dire wolf-looking traits.

Apparently this same group created a mouse with mammoth-like hair using some of the mammoth genes that create such a thing. Weird!!!

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I can’t help worrying about the Law of Unintended Consequences coming back to bite us in the ***. Think of kudzu, fire ants and killer bees.