Bringing Back to Life an Extinct Species: The Dire Wolf

Finally a pet that will protect you from the neighborhood Pit bulls...ridiculous...

It is all very well bringing back one animal to see how it really behaved, but that is only a small step in being able to produce a breeding population of 50+ with enough genetic material to give the required diversity to avoid inbreeding issues.

Otherwise, it is just another genetically modified animal, to be bred with other wolves?

Produced by Dr Moreau?

Well, I’m looking more beyond the species recovery???, but as resource recovery. Of all the species that walked, crawled, flew and swam on the earth, only a small fraction survived.

the ones that didn’t, we lost a lot of potential. A example could things such as venom from an extinct species where the proteins could be extracted and reproduce to fight diseases as an example.

Perhaps they can bring back that extinct species, Sensible politician/Economist, they are sorely missed in 2025!

I hope you’re not trying to replace one of our members who is now silent that spewed political rhetoric who got what he wanted over 4 years ago.

I don’t know about this being a wrench in the Theory of Evolution gearworks. Survival of the fittest is a process of natural selection, and human interference (some might say assistance) is not natural selection.

I’ll be the devils advocate…

define natural… an occurrence in nature like an Asteroid interference or human nature of curiousity interference.

If it wasn’t for that huuuuge Asteroid way back when. We may still be those 12ish pound little nocturnal mammals borrowing in the ground.

Ah-HA!

Butterfly Effect, or Schrodinger’s Cat?

Or… maybe them damn meddlesome humans!

And when the meteor struck earth, God said “ ‘Damm it’, I had the Velociraptor just right to take care of those dam little burrowing vermin mammals”

I see a pattern emerging in your recent posts.

Having a bit of gopher trouble at your place?

Nah, but every now and again, I run into a human that’s a freak evolutionary throw back that is nothing but a prehistoric vermin.

I’ve given this some thought.

I would say an asteroid impact would be natural, as would be a giant tsunami, hurricane, a severe and protracted winter or dry spell… Flora and fauna that survive these extreme tests go on to procreate, their progeny replacing those that had been removed from the gene pool.

Asteroid impacts on Earth are not an uncommon event. The K-T event (I guess it’s now called the K-Pg event) happened to be a really big test of the genetic tuning that had already taken place.

A number of extinct predator individuals are bioengineered back into existence. Unhappy with their carceral lifestyle an escape is carried out.

Free to roam after a 10,000 year hiatus, they do what predators do; predate as opportunities present, and make baby predators.

Biological imperatives in all living things, survival and procreation.

Would not be the first time a bioengineered life form leaked from some laboratory and caused some trouble.

like in the movie Jurassic park.

or in real life, Like the wuhan virus… (COVID 19)

which brings back another possibility… do those extinct creatures have any pathogens that could affect the ones that did survived the ‘natural’ selection.

I don’t know that this is a fraud or scam, but it is starting to appear this may be, at the least, wishful thinking.

There are several articles already out describing the pups as ‘abominations’ rather than miracles of genetic sciences.

Representative article: https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/dire-wolf-colossal-de-extinct-conservation-science-research-paper.html

This point of view seems to be gaining traction, I guess time will tell.

I was looking into that also, I read one article where it’s not really genetics, unfortunately I didn’t save that.

this is where AI is becoming a challenge. It’s becoming to a point it can generate false stories as well as pictures to go with it.

What was once a stable reference, Your local library (whats a library said generation Z and Alpha ) which was once a solid reference, now with the internet, every thing is questionable.

As the saying goes,…

If It's on The Internet, It Must Be True. - Abraham Lincoln