Dire Wolf Revived

Kyle

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Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process​

Colossal Biosciences said it restored the long-extinct canine species.

In a scientific breakthrough that could forever change how humans interact with our planet, Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back an extinct animal that last walked the Earth roughly 10,000 years ago: the dire wolf.

The U.S.-based biotechnology company is also known for its ambitious goal of bringing back the extinct woolly mammoth by 2028.

Colossal also said it had cloned four red wolves, a critically endangered animal with under two dozen thought to be left in the wild.

"We're not a foundation, we're not a nonprofit, we are not an academic think tank. We are trying to actually develop products and build technologies," Ben Lamm, the company’s CEO and co-founder, told ABC News.



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Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.
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Kinnakeet

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Kyle said:

Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process​

Colossal Biosciences said it restored the long-extinct canine species.

In a scientific breakthrough that could forever change how humans interact with our planet, Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back an extinct animal that last walked the Earth roughly 10,000 years ago: the dire wolf.

The U.S.-based biotechnology company is also known for its ambitious goal of bringing back the extinct woolly mammoth by 2028.

Colossal also said it had cloned four red wolves, a critically endangered animal with under two dozen thought to be left in the wild.

"We're not a foundation, we're not a nonprofit, we are not an academic think tank. We are trying to actually develop products and build technologies," Ben Lamm, the company’s CEO and co-founder, told ABC News.



abcnews.go.com

Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

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They need to be shut down NOW!
 
glhs837

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Kinnakeet said:
They need to be shut down NOW!
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SamSpade

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Did they do this - because they COULD? I read that there's lots of DNA to be found in carcasses preserved either in permafrost or tar pits but -

The Dire Wolf is a big dog - really big. With the exception of bears and mountain lions, pretty much the biggest predator you're likely to find.
In fact, SO big, it likely dined on megafauna - whose extinction probably led to theirs.

Is there some place in the world that NEEDS another large predator?
 
SamSpade

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stgislander said:
The need to bring back the dire wolf to predate the woolly mammoth they are bring back.
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The mammoth and mastodon - I can sort of see that. Mastodons probably lived alongside humans in North America, and I've read that some think they might have been domesticated.
 
SamSpade

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glhs837 said:
When all your senses are focused on the prey ahead of you....
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Oh I get that people see that in movies - it's just that, especially in THAT movie, every time a T Rex came by, you could hear it like an earthquake, you could feel the ground move.

It's as irritating as the most common trope now in movies during a chase - they get hit by a bus - especially while STANDING in the street yakkiing while the bus never hits the horn.
 
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Kyle said:
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Read it once, a long time ago, that they might have been ridden - or used in building. Most scholars I've read think North American prehistory was so highly unsophisticated, it would have never happened.

I do tend to concur however, with Jeff Goldblum's character that - these animals had their time on Earth - and they're gone. Bringing them back is for amusement - they can't adapt.

I can however get on board with trying to save animals that are near extinction, especially those HUNTED to extinction - they didn't die off because of natural causes, unless you think of humans killing them for sport counts.
 
Merlin99

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SamSpade said:
Read it once, a long time ago, that they might have been ridden - or used in building. Most scholars I've read think North American prehistory was so highly unsophisticated, it would have never happened.

I do tend to concur however, with Jeff Goldblum's character that - these animals had their time on Earth - and they're gone. Bringing them back is for amusement - they can't adapt.

I can however get on board with trying to save animals that are near extinction, especially those HUNTED to extinction - they didn't die off because of natural causes, unless you think of humans killing them for sport counts.
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Some animals I'd just like to see a real version to see if we were in any way close. Did a giant ground sloth really look like a brown bear, how did it walk. Same with a mastodon, I can picture a hairy elephant, but is that a true picture.
 
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Merlin99 said:
Some animals I'd just like to see a real version to see if we were in any way close. Did a giant ground sloth really look like a brown bear, how did it walk. Same with a mastodon, I can picture a hairy elephant, but is that a true picture.
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I think with the mammoth, they must have come close - when they pulled a carcass from the permafrost in Russia - since they couldn't do anything with the body - they ATE it. Maybe they had enough to see how it looked?
 
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