Wonder what FHA can get out of them?

I was thinking that

Would love to see one bouncing in one of my 750 Elimators, or MJ 800’s….

With only 3 in existence, I think the taxi market might be a better option.

There is only 3 now but wait a few years when they turn them loose in Yellowstone. They will kill everything including visitors, all while being protected. Then you have the wooly mammoth and the Sabre tooth tiger.man, I'm glad I'm 70.

Would anybody be open to bringing back recently gone-extinct critters... ie: passenger pigeon?

My thoughts exactly Rat_Pack. I figured the first place they'd be reintroduced would be the Timbers of Fenario.

In all seriousness though, I can agree with many in saying that I don't think any good will come of this work. I breakfasted with a couple of Colossal's geneticists earlier this year, and while the individuals were decent enough people (as most people tend to be), I can't say that I like their goals. Part of me wonders if the "coolness factor" of being able to de-extinct (as they put it) fun animals combined with the sentimentality of undoing the perceived wrongs of humanity (in causing the extinction of some species) which plays very well to the public mood these days, are really just ways to get the money they want to further develop gene-editing and cloning technology. Then again, maybe their motives are genuine. Either way, I don't see that humans wielding that kind of power will be a good thing. Humanity has a penchant for abusing any power it obtains.

Very fair points.

people often equate the ability to manipulate something for having the ability to control. Its easy confuse the two because manipulation often looks like control, right up until things get ugly. The longer someone gets away with manipulation, the more they think they're in control.

For example, Immediately before a government is overthrown, they're often yanking people around thinking their ability to manipulate people is the same as being able to control.

Humans certainly have gained the ability to manipulate DNA. But the consequences (even of the individual changes they make) are not fully understood, and that manipulation is not equivalent to control.

What if they were talking about bringing back a giant beaver?



https://www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/giant-beaver

What if they brought back the Irish Elk?

Those wolves were designed to eat large mega fauna from the ice age, mammoths, giant bison etc.. those went missing so the dire wolves ran out of food and followed them.
I guess they could finish off whatever elk, moose and buffalo thats still around, but that shouldn't take long with any amount of re wilded Dire wolves

If the three pups are the first Dire Wolves, what's with the white dogs running around?

No offense, but did your speech writer suddenly become available to you since this past November?
(Okay, maybe a tiny bit of offense was meant, but nothing personal, well not really personal since we have never met.)

I was thinking something like that or the dodos that were killed and made extinct directly by humans.

No I've had that thought for a long time. The political illustration was an afterthought I threw in before clicking 'Post Reply'. With the political illustration I was thinking of actual overthrowing of governments like when kings loose their heads and such. Nothing in November crossed my mind until readding your reply. If it matters to you, I wrote in Mike Pence in the '24 general election.

Another view I've had for a long time has to do with the word assume being self descriptive. But that thought isn't my own, I heard it from others long ago.

From what I understand is that they modified 20 genes of grey wolves to "clone" these "dire wolves". So they're basically designer grey wolves.

Ian Malcolm was right.



RIP Michael Crichton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf

Here is the info on what we can expect with a 150 lb wolf. Can you imagine what wolves of this size could do to game of today's size?

Absolute madness!!! Just because we can does not mean we should.

Winter is coming.