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I don't know if this is drawing is accurate by any stretch, but the point its expressing is that these are different animals. I think its fascinating how much this mirrors Jurassic World. A designer gray wolf made to look like a dire wolf as a PR stunt to gain additional investment and funding. Not to say that it isn't an impressive project with some 80,000 year old DNA, the tech they used is amazing, but wow is the marketing misleading.
Apparently their endgame with creatures like these isn't actually to bring back extinct species as they were, but to create new species that could fill the same niche as an extinct species. Which could either be amazing or absolutely horrifying depending on how well that pans out. Like any new tech at this point, we're probably going to have sorted out the mass extinction and climate change issue or died out before its ready, but its sure looking like its going to be an interesting conversation in the coming decades. Also this is all giving me ideas for one of my post apocalypse universes, which feels concerning.
Apparently their endgame with creatures like these isn't actually to bring back extinct species as they were, but to create new species that could fill the same niche as an extinct species. Which could either be amazing or absolutely horrifying depending on how well that pans out. Like any new tech at this point, we're probably going to have sorted out the mass extinction and climate change issue or died out before its ready, but its sure looking like its going to be an interesting conversation in the coming decades. Also this is all giving me ideas for one of my post apocalypse universes, which feels concerning.
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Yeah it's like, stop trying to sell it as a dire wolf. It's a dire-ish wolf lol. It's not really brought back from the dead, they just made a hybrid that I'm guessing isn't even mostly "dire" DNA. I guess it's almost like the rule that a wolf dog only needs to be like, 5% wolf to be considered that. Look a dire wolf, it's 20% dire!
As I understand it, they edited about 20 genes. What I've heard from some bigger nerds than I is the difference between the two species is 179 genes. I cannot deny that there's a chance they got the 20 that mattered, but the heckers refuse to release their data, so we're stuck here speculating, but yeah, about 10% dire from the raw numbers
Dang haha yeah I haven't really looked at the numbers but good to know that it's about as little as I guessed with how much of it is actually dire wolf. Definitely just a big marketing ploy to get a ton of reactions and views and then people realize no, they didn't actually bring it back, they just mixed it with a lot of present day wolf genes and screamed IT'S ALIVE
Actually shocked with how much the media lied about this. Imagine if all this hype actually leads to true dire wolf de-extinction projects trying to bring back the actual Aenocyon Dirus ending up "not being necessary" and getting cancelled. Hopefully they're planning to do more than this
I feel like I'm not very surprised by the lack of effort by the media to question the information they were being given, but I am still rather disgusted by how much that company is outputting bullshit. I worry about what it might do to other more effective efforts to stop extinction as well.
Way too many, haha. The Fallen Earth universe is the one that would receive stuff from this particular thread of ideas. Since most of the worlds biosphere was repopulated by a bunch of bored bio engineering AIs.
Also no problem on the explanation, and yeah Dire Wolves were a real thing! 10,000 years ago anyways.
Also no problem on the explanation, and yeah Dire Wolves were a real thing! 10,000 years ago anyways.
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