Dire Wolves are back

[Funky Monk]

Apparently scientists brought back dire wolves from extinction with 3 new pups. It's quite crazy to think that we have dire wolves before Winds of Winter


The same group is also planning on bringing back some other species such as the Wooly Mammoth and Dodo bird.

[Reddari]

Actually looking up some stats on dire wolves. They are roughly the size of todays largest gray wolves. But those are only a measly 60 KG. So that begs the question - What exactly are the giant black wolves the size of a Grizzly bear? I don't see wiki make any mention of them even though there are videos of them on the net. So are they really werewolves - is that why their existence is not acknowledge by the lamestream?

[ℭycaleo]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 我很高兴认识你:

Next task is orcs

Diposting pertama kali oleh 我很高兴认识你:

Would rather see a saber ttoth cat

I'm fine with both, but orcs would be amazing...

[videogames10]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Funky Monk:

Dire Wolves are back

Our future looks dire.

[Mauserich]

Nice. They look very similar to Arctic wolves. They should be resettled in a suitable area.

[MinionJoe]

I need a T-shirt.

"Three Dire Wolf Moon Base."

Hey Copilot...

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OK, can't really share it, but I like that Copilot used FOUR dire wolves when I asked for three.

That's some real one-upmanship!

[L1qu1dator]

Cool now we just need the night king.

[☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n]

If the internet is to be believed, they are thinking about working on the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth.

If it happens, I'm going green and will trade my gas guzzling car in for one........ I'd soon have all those tree hugging lentil munchers regretting what they wished for, as me and my mammoth go stomping ♥♥♥♥ up!

[It Who Grinds Flesh]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n:

If the internet is to be believed, they are thinking about working on the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth.

If it happens, I'm going green and will trade my gas guzzling car in for one........ I'd soon have all those tree hugging lentil munchers regretting what they wished for, as me and my mammoth go stomping ♥♥♥♥ up!

There is a hypothesis that these megafauna will help climate change. The belief is that their digging and foraging in the ground in places like Siberia will actually revitalise the soil over time, making it more verdant.

Of course, we might have to force this on Russia.

I really hope we take out that country soonish.

[CaractacusRex]

I'm not up on what Colossal Science has actually achieved, but I found this comment on their youtube video on this subject.

Actual dire wolves had over a thousand of gene differences from the wolves. What this project did was to only select the 20 or so genes they think were the most important in differentiating dire wolves from wolves. Yes, that few! That's enough to make their "dire wolves" look like dire wolves maybe, but biologically they're still the same as wolves, able to mate with wolves and produce fertile offspring. They're still the same species as wolves. They should really just call these "dire wolf-looking wolves." Eventually, more dire wolf specimens will have their genes sequenced, allowing us to know exactly all the thousands of gene differences between dire wolves and wolves. We will eventually be able to revive the dire wolves. But it's not today. What this project did however is a step in that direction.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh It Who Grinds Flesh:

There is a hypothesis that these megafauna will help climate change. The belief is that their digging and foraging in the ground in places like Siberia will actually revitalise the soil over time, making it more verdant.

Of course, we might have to force this on Russia.

I really hope we take out that country soonish.

How will making the soil more verdant address "climate change?"

[CaractacusRex]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pronnu:

Diposting pertama kali oleh It Who Grinds Flesh:

There is a hypothesis that these megafauna will help climate change. The belief is that their digging and foraging in the ground in places like Siberia will actually revitalise the soil over time, making it more verdant.

Of course, we might have to force this on Russia.

I really hope we take out that country soonish.

How will making the soil more verdant address "climate change?"

Note that they always reference wolves at Yellowstone.

Note they never reference raccoons at the local dump.

[Electric Cupcake]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/de-extinction-company-announces-that-the-dire-wolf-is-back/

Cute little awoos.

A pox on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who want to legalize wolf hunting again.
https://wolf.org/meet-our-wolves/wolf-cams2/

[Yzal]

We are one step closer to Jurassic Park

[Electric Cupcake]

“Shere Khan does us great honor,” said Father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry. “What does Shere Khan need?”

“My quarry. A man’s cub went this way,” said Shere Khan. “Its parents have run off. Give it to me.”

Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet. But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by. Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.

“The Wolves are a free people,” said Father Wolf. “They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man’s cub is ours—to kill if we choose.”

“Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan, who speak!”
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.

The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.

“And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri—mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little ♥♥♥♥♥ cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!”

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted:

“Each dog barks in his own yard! We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs. The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!”

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Diposting pertama kali oleh CaractacusRex:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pronnu:

How will making the soil more verdant address "climate change?"

Note that they always reference wolves at Yellowstone.

Note they never reference raccoons at the local dump.

Trash pandas are our society's most underappreciated.