Scientists Bring Back Extinct Animal After 10,000 Years

[ttwtt78640]

Scientists Bring Back Extinct Animal After 10,000 Years​

It must be fake news, since the Earth isn’t that old.

 

[Lursa]

Where would they be released? Ranchers in the US and Canada already want to/may kill regular wolves that take their livestock.

When they reintroduced the California condor, it had to be supported for years because the giant dead carcasses of the megafauna they evolved feeding on are also gone. They had to leave out entire dead cow carcasses.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

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.

But we are responsible for the MAGAfauna.

Clearly, discussions of science and bringing back long extinct species is tied to current political situations.

 

[Luce]

But we are responsible for the MAGAfauna.

But nobody will EVER try to revive them when they're gone.

It would be like reviving the really dumb megafauna. Like the giant sloth. Who the hell wants that?

Clearly, discussions of science and bringing back long extinct species is tied to current political situations.

Well, they're doing a bang up job on Nazis, aren't they?

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

But nobody will EVER try to revive them when they're gone.

It would be like reviving the really dumb megafauna. Like the giant sloth. Who the hell wants that?

Well, they're doing a bang up job on Nazis, aren't they?1

Why interject politics in some fashion into something that has shit to do with it.

Last I checked, this was in S&T forum.

Take a Giant Sloth in a heartbeat though. They cool. And I may be able to evade their attacks.

 

[Luce]

Why interject politics in some fashion into something that has shit to do with it.

I didn't bring MAGA up, you did.

 

[venice_ca]

Saber tooth tabbies.....

The Page Museum— associated with the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles — has scads of saber-tooth cat skeletons, just waiting for someone to reintroduce that feline to the modern world. There are also plenty of giant ground sloth skeletons — set a few of those critters on our congested parking lots freeways, and problem solved!

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

I didn't bring MAGA up, you did.

With this site, when you see mega, your brain sees MAGA. It's that weird brain response with certain words which makes you re-read.

My brain fooled me for a second with expectations!

Was megafauna in the article? Could be a trigger?

 

[ModernDiogenes]

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.

I think this to be a tad stoooopid and a bit scary.

We keep playing with these things. Killer bees. COVID. Now dire wolves. We are going to zig when we should have zagged and truly screw the pooch. I mean create an extinction level event.

We don’t learn.

 

[Airyaman]

They'll use chickens to make raptors.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

They'll use chickens to make raptors.

Why not? Wooly mice..

Meet the ‘woolly mouse’: why scientists doubt it’s a big step towards recreating mammoths

De-extinction company Colossal mixed mammoth and mouse mutations in a single strain to create a shaggy-haired rodent.

www.nature.com

 

[Argent]

I'm signing up for the How to Train Your Velociraptor class.

 

[BirdinHand]

I saw this - they’re also created 4 of the severely endanger red wolves using the same technology?

Which, if that remains successful…can be excellent.

 

[BirdinHand]

I think this to be a tad stoooopid and a bit scary.

We keep playing with these things. Killer bees. COVID. Now dire wolves. We are going to zig when we should have zagged and truly screw the pooch. I mean create an extinction level event.

We don’t learn.

I’d rather go out from dinosaurs than because an idiot with an ego decides he’s going to hit the nuke button.

Way more fun and interesting story.

Scientists are going to do these sort of things - it’s just how we are as humans. One will eventually go too wrong, yes. But humans aren’t going to stop stretching our limits.

 

[Threegoofs]

I saw this - they’re also created 4 of the severely endanger red wolves using the same technology?

Which, if that remains successful…can be excellent.

Meh.

Charismatic megafauna.

 

[Peacenik]

First, dire wolves. Next, wooly mammoths.

Well, we've already got an abominable president.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

I’d rather go out from dinosaurs than because an idiot with an ego decides he’s going to hit the nuke button.

Way more fun and interesting story.

Scientists are going to do these sort of things - it’s just how we are as humans. One will eventually go too wrong, yes. But humans aren’t going to stop stretching our limits.

I suppose.

Darwinism in action

 

[eohrnberger]

Jurassic Park...here we come!

Agreed.
I've long voiced my opinion that the human race hasn't gained sufficient wisdom nor sufficient knowledge of the many possible unintended consequences of such actions, and therefore we shouldn't be experimenting in those sciences.

 

[eohrnberger]

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Exactly the point in my post.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Doing this kind of thing…

Not a great idea…

 

[Gordy327]

Agreed.
I've long voiced my opinion that the human race hasn't gained sufficient wisdom nor sufficient knowledge of the many possible unintended consequences of such actions, and therefore we shouldn't be experimenting in those sciences.

How can we gain knowledge or wisdom if we don't try first? We tend to learn as we go along.

 

[Fabiusbile]

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

I will disappoint you... but wolves are very bad dogs))

The attitude of people towards wolves is very romanticized and people attribute to them traits that are absolutely not peculiar to wolves.
I spent a lot of years in the Russian penitentiary system, and I loved dogs and talked a lot with dog handlers... and they were all not satisfied with the wolf-dog hybrids. We used Permian wolfhdogs and Czechoslovakian ones.
The main problem of a wolf is that it is cowardly. A wolf in case of danger... he runs away, he doesn't protect the pack or the leader, he runs. And this is not a character trait that a guard dog needs.
Another problem is the unstable psyche of the hybrid. Unreasonable aggression or fear. Wolves and dogs, although related animals, have been separate species for thousands of generations. Many people don't know, but modern dogs are descended from wild dogs, not wolves.
It was strong family ties and desperate protection of offspring that prompted ancient people to domesticate wild dogs, not wolves.
Well, what is important... modern dogs have not eaten meat for thousands of generations, they were fed what humans ate, and humans could not always afford meat, because dogs are much better adapted to human food and feed and have much less food allergies than hybrids.

Now the breeding of wolf and dog hybrids has been discontinued as impractical.

 

[eohrnberger]

How can we gain knowledge or wisdom if we don't try first? We tend to learn as we go along.

While true, you also need to include risk / impact considerations.

So you genetically modify / create / engineer a creature / virus.
What happens when it escapes the lab, which it most certainly will?
What are the the risk and impact which need to be considered?

Now do COVID, and tell me 'nothing to see here', and 'everything'll be fine'.

Yes, there are cases where risks and impacts should cause reconsideration for the course of overt and direct genetic manipulation.
Bringing extinct animals back to life by gene editing is one, where human transmissible viral Gain of Function viral engineering would be another.

 

[Gordy327]

While true, you also need to include risk / impact considerations.

So you genetically modify / create / engineer a creature / virus.
What happens when it escapes the lab, which it most certainly will?
What are the the risk and impact which need to be considered?

Now do COVID, and tell me 'nothing to see here', and 'everything'll be fine'.

Yes, there are cases where risks and impacts should cause reconsideration for the course of overt and direct genetic manipulation.
Bringing extinct animals back to life by gene editing is one, where human transmissible viral Gain of Function viral engineering would be another.

Bringing back extinct species would likely be easier to contain or control than viruses. Putting down Manny the Mammoth would be a simpler task than developing new vaccines for viruses.

 

[Moon]

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

Don’t forget more cowbell!