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What are your thoughts on the scientists bringing back dire wolves

A scientific breakthrough, maybe? I'm not sure if it is a good thing or not. I have to admit that I am very interested to see how they grow and behave.
 
akirazoo said:
As far as I saw it’s just grey wolf DNA with some dire wolf characteristics, no?
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I just did some research and essentially they have about 99% grey wolf genome

NCGuy said:
A scientific breakthrough, maybe? I'm not sure if it is a good thing or not. I have to admit that I am very interested to see how they grow and behave.
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Probably a regular wolf. I don't think their is anything super about the dire wolf. Simply an extinct species, maybe I am wrong though. Time will tell. They could be more or less aggressive who knows

akirazoo said:
It’ll be a chicken what screams like a dinosaur 😂
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What if we managed to mutate pocket Dinos. Imagine a mini T-rex in a jurassic park type zoo and their was 0 chance of them taking over the world
 
Bloit said:
They're not dire wolves.

www.newscientist.com

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction

Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

Genetically, they're just "tweaked" grey wolves.
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Correct. The "DNA" they extracted wasn't used to create the puppies. They took that DNA and 'copied' it into grey wolf genomes to resemble the DW. These puppies most likely can't breed when they are older and if they CAN the 1% copied gene won't be passed to the pups.
 
pup67276 said:
Correct. The "DNA" they extracted wasn't used to create the puppies. They took that DNA and 'copied' it into grey wolf genomes to resemble the DW. These puppies most likely can't breed when they are older and if they CAN the 1% copied gene won't be passed to the pups.
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You really don't know how genetics work, do you?
Read the article I linked:

And Colossal claims it has turned grey wolves into dire wolves by making just 20 gene edits?​

That is the claim. In fact, five of those 20 changes are based on mutations known to produce light coats in grey wolves, Shapiro told New Scientist. Only 15 are based on the dire wolf genome directly and are intended to alter the animals’ size, musculature and ear shape. It will be a year or so before it’s clear if those changes have had the intended effects on the genetically modified animals, says Shapiro.
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You pulled that "1% copied gene" of yours out of thin air.

Also, they're not even planning on allowing them to breed. But seeing as how these changes are part of their genome, if they were to breed, they'd definitely be able to pass on the changes.
 
Scientists with too much time & money on their hands! Whose money?
Funds that would be better spent finding cures like arthritis & diseases that take our current Loved k9's & other creatures from us, far too soon!

I've got to fall in with 'Fauna775' on this one.
Nature had a Reason!
 
PNWSwampBull said:
Scientists with too much time & money on their hands! Whose money?
Funds that would be better spent finding cures like arthritis & diseases that take our current Loved k9's & other creatures from us, far too soon!

I've got to fall in with 'Fauna775' on this one.
Nature had a Reason!
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This kind of research is important to learn about genetics.
 
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