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2025-04-08 Science & Technology

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Posted by Beavis 2025-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10337 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, this sounds like a REALLY BAD IDEA!!

Posted by Oregon Dave 2025-04-08 00:09|| 2025-04-08 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Oregon Dave, our ancient ancestors obviously hated them so so much they exterminated them all over their range and long before even "nations" form. Dire Wolfs are a horrible choice to bring back from extinction.

Posted by 3dc 2025-04-08 02:31|| 2025-04-08 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought they died out when the megafauna disappeared.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-08 02:36|| 2025-04-08 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm waiting for terror birds.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-08 02:39|| 2025-04-08 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 We have chickens — surely that suffices, Grom.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-08 03:12|| 2025-04-08 03:12|| Front Page Top

#6 ^😎

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-08 04:45|| 2025-04-08 04:45|| Front Page Top

#7 If all this seems to smack of a P.T. Barnum, the company has a reply. Colossal claims that the same techniques it uses to summon back species from the dead could prevent existing but endangered animals from slipping into extinction themselves.

Note well. That will kill the Luddites who've obstructed lots of progress with appeals to emotion for rather preservation of 'rare' species. Over a century ago, the concept of species meant one that could mate and reproduce a viable offspring rather than a sterile offspring. Now mere coloring or slight variation in bone structure seems to justify a newly defined species.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-08 06:59|| 2025-04-08 06:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Dire Wolfs are a horrible choice to bring back from extinction.

Giants.
Bring back the giants.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-08 07:26|| 2025-04-08 07:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Can you pet them?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-08 08:19|| 2025-04-08 08:19|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Frank G 2025-04-08 08:20|| 2025-04-08 08:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Have these people not seen Jurassic Park? At least they haven't+ brought back a Velociraptor...as far as we know...

Posted by Warthog 2025-04-08 09:58|| 2025-04-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#12 When I awoke, the dire wolf
600 pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was, "Come on in"
The wolf came in, I got my cards
We sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades
But the cards were all the same

Posted by 746 2025-04-08 12:14|| 2025-04-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#13 ...if you saw the original 'V' series, I suspect a number of Lefty congresscitters maybe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-08 12:14|| 2025-04-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually, bring back the Auroch so we can taste what our ancestors loved to eat

Posted by 3dc 2025-04-08 12:53|| 2025-04-08 12:53|| Front Page Top

#15 ^Aurochs: back from extinction to rewild Europe

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-08 13:11|| 2025-04-08 13:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Next week: the Dire Wolf/Poodle breed. A Dirfapoodle, if you will.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-04-08 17:57|| 2025-04-08 17:57|| Front Page Top

#17 I believe Goering (yeah, him) was involved in a scheme to bring those back to, Grom

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-04-08 18:03|| 2025-04-08 18:03|| Front Page Top

#18 At least they haven't+ brought back a Velociraptor...as far as we know...

That would be paleo-dude Jack Horner's Dino Chicken project to genetically reverse engineer a chicken into a dinosaur.

Posted by SteveS 2025-04-08 22:44|| 2025-04-08 22:44|| Front Page Top

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