Dire Wolves brought back from extinction

[HookMeUpII]

I read more into it today. It's not entirely true. They are not dire wolves. They are basically grey wolfs genetically engineered to look like dire wolves.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Yeah, I figured something was fishy. Recreating the Tasmanian tiger was a failure and those scientists had much more viable genetic material to work with. Scam.

 

[CJW]

Did Dire Wolves Just Come Back From Extinction? Here's The Truth.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North America and that was famously featured in the HBO fantasy series, Game of Thrones.

www.sciencealert.com

"Jeremy Austin, Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, told ScienceAlert that all Colossal has done is create a genetically engineered gray wolf that looks like what the company thinks a dire wolf might have looked like. And even that is up for debate; canids are morphologically similar, making it hard to verify from fossil remains the exact appearance of an extinct member of the family."

 

[bashaw]

Next steps...

Next step, US Fish & Wildlife designates Critical Habitat with the blessing of the NGOs.

Next Step, US Fish & Wildlife produces a Recovery Plan under the Endangered Species Act with the scientific participation of the NGOs.

Next step, US Fish & Wildlife reintroduces a Dire Wolf Experimental Population and manages the reversing of the species extinction at "whatever the cost" * with the legal support of the NGOs.

* "... it is clear from the Act's legislative history that Congress intended to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction whatever the cost" (U.S. Supreme Court, Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill).

Next step, ranchers, farmers and hunters pay "whatever the cost" in lost cattle, horse, sheep, and ungulate big game.

Ask folks in rural Arizona and New Mexico about their experience with the Mexican Wolf recovery plan..........

Same in the North West with Wolves. My favorite hypocritical play by enviros, is shut down fish Hatcheries because the genetics of Salmon or Steelhead from respective hatcheries might foul up genetics from wild fish, BUT we can bring Timberwolves from Canada and introduce to Yellowstone in the 1990's, now all over the PNW and it's not the same genetics as the Wolves before so called reintroduction. Bottom line is the ESA is a tool to shut down natural resource industries in the West where there is lot of Public ground.

 

[Wheels]

I read more into it today. It's not entirely true. They are not dire wolves. They are basically grey wolfs genetically engineered to look like dire wolves.

I agree in great part with you on that.


I did listen to the Rogan interview with Ben Lamm and what wasn't explained well, or that I missed was the amount of common dna that dire wolves have with grey wolves. ie: humans and chimps share apx. 98-99% common dna. Lamm did say that dire wolves are closest to grey wolves in sequencing. The big question for me is how many gaps are there in the dire wolf dna that they filled with grey wolf dna that could be wrong.

Another thing that came from the Rogan podcast is they are looking to do the same with the wooly mammoth which is closest to the Indian elephant.

 

[KuduKiller]

Chicken

 

[KuduKiller]

Chicken

Oops, didn’t get caught up to the what does mammoth taste like, someone beat me to the punch line?

 

[Northern Shooter]

Woolly Mammoths next! Let's go!

 

[MS 9x56]

Just more woke BS.

 

[Nevada Mike]

I noticed this on YouTube. Passed right by it without clicking.

The caption should read... "This is what we CALL a dire wolf."

 

[Flbt]

"Sorta" dire wolves, if you read closely.

I have very mixed feelings about this stuff, I've been fascinated by pleistocene north American animals my whole life, part of me would love to see a live wooly mammoth.

The other part, well, ya know, we've all seen Jurassic Park and know how this sh** always ends.

Well if the worlds got to end would rather hunt huge beast than be in a war

 

[Brent in Az]

Hopefully it doesn't end up like Jurassic park ...lol.

 

[CBH Australia]

Did Dire Wolves Just Come Back From Extinction? Here's The Truth.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North America and that was famously featured in the HBO fantasy series, Game of Thrones.

www.sciencealert.com

"Jeremy Austin, Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, told ScienceAlert that all Colossal has done is create a genetically engineered gray wolf that looks like what the company thinks a dire wolf might have looked like. And even that is up for debate; canids are morphologically similar, making it hard to verify from fossil remains the exact appearance of an extinct member of the family."

So, it’s like an artists impression?

We don’t really know what Dire wolves look like. Well fossilised but not fresh, like a Mammoth.

For all we know the prehistoric animals could have been Bright Pink or Fluorescent Orange. We assume they were green for camouflage but they did not survive for some reason.

An artists impression or artistic license is probably a loosely drawn collaboration from a discussion.

 

[CBH Australia]

It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

+1, and the same for the Jurassic park reference.

Science should focus on slowing the degradation of anything that is going extinct not throw money and resources at something that suits the purpose of a few individuals who are burning resources to genetically engineer something to see what it might have looked like to suit a few individuals.

Someone summed it up perfectly on facebook asking “ If Solar panels are so efficient why do China so much Coal to produce them? “

 

[sgt_zim]

 

[schwerpunkt88]

Chicken

 

[Sideshow]

"Sorta" dire wolves, if you read closely.

I have very mixed feelings about this stuff, I've been fascinated by pleistocene north American animals my whole life, part of me would love to see a live wooly mammoth.

The other part, well, ya know, we've all seen Jurassic Park and know how this sh** always ends.

Yep your having quite time on the loo and T Rex comes and spoils your day

 

[Sideshow]

Need to reintroduce the mega fauna they used to prey on.


The main issue I have with their idea on woolly mammoth was the plan to delete the gene to grow tusks. Apparently in an effort to prevent future poaching and “hunting”

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