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.