Scientists Bring Back Extinct Animal After 10,000 Years

[Bum]

Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.

MSN

Ooooookay.

 

[Gordy327]

First, dire wolves. Next, wooly mammoths.

 

[Mycroft]

Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.

MSN

Ooooookay.

Jurassic Park...here we come!

 

[Visbek]

Jurassic Park jokes in 3, 2, 1....

 

[Hello My Son]

Jurassic Park jokes in 3, 2, 1....

You were late by a half-second!

 

[Bum]

First, dire wolves. Next, wooly mammoths.

Saber tooth tabbies.....

 

[Allan]

Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.

MSN

Ooooookay.

It doesn't sound cuddly...

The dire wolf was about the same size as the largest modern gray wolves (Canis lupus): the Yukon wolf and the northwestern wolf. A. d. guildayi weighed on average 60 kilograms (132 lb) and A. d. dirus was on average 68 kg (150 lb). Its skull and dentition matched those of C. lupus, but its teeth were larger with greater shearing ability, and its bite force at the canine tooth was stronger than any known Canis species.

Dire wolf - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Luce]

I was just saying that we needed some dire wolves. And more glitter.

 

[Gordy327]

Saber tooth tabbies.....

Even better.

 

[Ishm]

First, dire wolves. Next, wooly mammoths.

I hear that Wooly Mammoth steaks are fantastic. Can't wait until they start farming them in Alaska. Then when the Wooly Mammoth population gets out of control we can release the Dire Wolves on them.

 

[Allan]

I hear that Wooly Mammoth steaks are fantastic.

I bet they're like Bison - too little fat. Healthier, but dry as the Colorado on the Mexican side.

 

[Gordy327]

I hear that Wooly Mammoth steaks are fantastic. Can't wait until they start farming them in Alaska. Then when the Wooly Mammoth population gets out of control we can release the Dire Wolves on them.

Wolves or the saber cats. Maybe the mammoths can be used to make mammoth cheese?

 

[watsup]

Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.

MSN

Ooooookay.

Looks like Ted Williams was right after all.

 

[Ishm]

I bet they're like Bison - too little fat. Healthier, but dry as the Colorado on the Mexican side.

Could be. We need more lean meat to cut the fat in American beef burgers. Maybe we could just mix in some lean mammoth cuts??

I want to see how they are going to shear those wooly mothers???

 

[Lycanthrope]

 

[Ishm]

Wolves or the saber cats. Maybe the mammoths can be used to make mammoth cheese?

There's an idea. Now I need to see the milking machines as well as the shearers.

 

[Ishm]

Wolves or the saber cats. Maybe the mammoths can be used to make mammoth cheese?

Second thoughts on the cheese thing. Did you know that the govt is already sitting on 1.4billion lb's of cheese that it owns from paying all those dairy subsidies. The ones that allow our dairy farmers to compete unfairly in export markets!

 

[Allan]

Wolves or the saber cats.

They should do a few Sabre Tooth Tigers. Let them roam the halls of Congress.

Any survivors get to keep their seats.

RIP Chuck, Nancy & Bernie

 

[Helix]

One of the best ways to make a species extinct is to reduce its number of breeding pairs to one. I suppose that we'll see if this can work. My first reaction to it is that it's pretty cool, though.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Just read the  TIME article a few ago. Not sure where I stand.

Claim the research will help save endangered species, but should we being re-introducing anything extinct or putting the things in zoos to be gawked at?(someone is thinking that right now.)

“We are deciding what the future of these species will be.”

Should we be?

“If we want a future that is both bionumerous and filled with people,” Shapiro says, “we should be giving ourselves the opportunity to see what our big brains can do to reverse some of the bad things that we’ve done to the world already.”

Careful with those big brains... Nature adapts, things change. We're guilty of some downfalls for sure, but don't try too hard to 'right the wrongs'.

They keep their distance, retreating if a person approaches. Even one of the handlers who raised them from birth can get only so close before Romulus and Remus flinch and retreat. This isn’t domestic canine behavior, this is wild lupine behavior: the pups are wolves. Not only that, they’re dire wolves—which means they have cause to be lonely.

Part of that DNA ancestry last saw someone with a stick in their hand.

The Return of the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

time.com

Frankly, seems such brains and funding could be put to use in more advantageous ways.

Hell of a guard dog though. If you can tame it enough to not eat you.

 

[Luce]

They should do a few Sabre Tooth Tigers. Let them roam the halls of Congress.

Any survivors get to keep their seats.

RIP Chuck, Nancy & Bernie

Grassley hasn't got a prayer.

 

[Luce]

Just read the  TIME article a few ago. Not sure where I stand.

Claim the research will help save endangered species, but should we being re-introducing anything extinct or putting the things in zoos to be gawked at?(someone is thinking that right now.)


Should we be?


Careful with those big brains... Nature adapts, things change. We're guilty of some downfalls for sure, but don't try too hard to 'right the wrongs'.


Part of that DNA ancestry last saw someone with a stick in their hand.

The Return of the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

time.com

Frankly, seems such brains and funding could be put to use in more advantageous ways.

Hell of a guard dog though. If you can tame it enough to not eat you.

Turns out we probably aren't responsible for the megafauna.

The Hiawatha Impactor done it. @Allan may have been involved. Only Canadians would throw a 9 mile long iron spear at Greenland.

 

[Allan]

Only Canadians would throw a 9 mile long iron spear at Greenland.

The ****ers tariffed it too - 25%.

 

[Threegoofs]

But I was assured by a Bible thumper that there are no extinct animals because God would never make one of creations make sense.

They were very adamant, too.

 

[Luce]

The ****ers tariffed it too - 25%.

Let's see. A cylinder 1.5 Km in diameter by 14 km long is going to be 25 cubic kilometers of iron (allowing for most of the asteroid not actually being iron), and that comes out to 488,000,000 kilograms of iron which is 19.5 billion dollars, at 25% = $4,880,000,000 in tariffs.

So call it just under 5 billion USD in tariffs to wipe out all the megafauna in North America and Northern Europe, plus apparently Clovis Man (nobody liked those guys anyway).

Not unreasonable, but Greenland will never get their iron industry going with that kind of protectionist bullshit going on.