If 19-20 genes were the only difference between the dire and the grey then they have duplicated 100% the dire. My understanding is they were able to sequence several ancient dire fossils genomes.

Not a lot of difference genetically between us and orangutans.

We are almost identical genetically to chimps.

According to Scientific American the latest research says we share 94% identical genes with our cousin chimps.

Well there are several on here that I would swear have been genetically spliced with Cromagnons.

they are playing Jurassic park with mamals

they could work on a better cure to cancer with that money and not a new super predator

I guess at least a regular 308win should take down a Dire wolf[/quote]
I think even just a .243 would be fine, but I'd go with a .270 or .308, just in case.[/quote]

22mag with FMJ’s

Cro-magnons were some of the first smarter Homo sapiens resulting from interbreeding with Neanderthals. Homo sapiens without Neanderthal DNA, have statistically much lower IQs. Higher intelligence developed outside of Africa, probably in large part from adaptation to harsher living conditions.

Keith

That neanderthal interbreeding with Homo sapiens sapiens made them smarter, well, I would like to see the supporting science. Larger cranial capacity doesn't necessarily translate to more smarts.

Neanderthals are believed to have had the same average IQ range as modern humans, of 85 to 115, with a mean of 100 compared to the mean average IQ of Sub Saharan Africans, the first Homo sapiens, which is 82.

Larger brain size has a slight correlation to intelligence. Likely the biggest reason for higher intelligence in Neanderthals is genetic selection from living in a harsher environment.

The areas of Africa with Neanderthal genetics have higher average IQs than the Sub Saharan parts of Africa.

I doubt there is a single person on this forum who doesn't have Neanderthal DNA.

Caucasians and Asians all have Neanderthal DNA, with some Asians having a fair amount of Denisovan DNA. Almost all black people in the US have Neanderthal DNA too.

Keith

There’s a project planned to repopulate woolly mammoths into northern Siberia. Given the lack of megafauna, scientists suspect that the vegetation is impacting the climate a certain way. The thought is that woolly mammoths’ feeding habits will help to return the Siberian vegetation to a more desirable state.

I wonder if the dire wolves are being raised as a secondary part of the project. Perhaps a control mechanism on mammoth populations?

I'm not in favor of any of it. Even in the case of the dodo and Thylacine. I don't agree with any of it. Especially the madness behind it. Those rewilding scientists are mad. I think many of them would rather see current human extermination and give it back to animals.

But since we are on the subject........Why not bring back the native populations of people that were made extinct directly by humans long before we bring any critters back. Again, I am against all of it.

^^^read UN agenda 21

You can bet they will be releasing them "into the wild" as soon as they can produce some more

If they can bring back the sloths, horses, mammoths and camels that made up most of the prey base they can make a nice game park. We can put them on Greenland once we acquire it.

Hey look, we did the same things with Conservatives in the 2024 election. They had long since been dead but we took some Reagan DNA and mixed it with a guy that actually had a spine and . . . . Ta Da!!! Conservatives can once again be heard howling.

Not just conservatives howling....

I would love that

What an Idea

Or Manitoba

What if the Dire Wolf carries a disease that affects wild and domestic canines. Or a bad gene that is passed on to other canines. Just because something is no longer here because of extinction, doesn't necessarily mean that it wouldn't have died off on its own... or that it should be brought back. Maybe the passenger pigeon was the biggest carrier of bird flu... if that's the case, why would we want it back?

I've read a couple of contradicting versions of this work now. One of them states that the complete genome of the dire wolf was never sequenced and that the scientists doing the work on the project chose a certain number of genes to manipulate that had to do with phenotype (what the wolf looked like). No actual dire dna was inserted into the gray wolf ovum, just the instructions rewritten on 19 genes.

That being the case it isn't truly a 100% dire. It's a gray-dire hybrid.

I though there was general agreement on Trapperman that COVID was just a flue used by the Chinese and the left to destroy the last trump presidency?