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[CronoCloud Creeggan]

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

Looks like a big fuzzy white doggo. Just because it might look somewhat like a dire wolf used to doesn't make it one. Stupid biotech company braggarts.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

“You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”

lol this is so stupid. I actually felt embarrassed reading it.

Literally these guys right now:

 

[Casey Pelous]

lol this is so stupid. I actually felt embarrassed reading it.

You mean you don't find, "Yeah, well that's just, like, your opinion, man" to be a compelling scientific argument?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I see a lot of serious commentary along the lines of scary references to Jurassic Park, and I understand why, but I can't take any of it seriously because these dweebs didn't even do that. Like they didn't actually insert any real actual dire-wolf DNA into anything. They were just like, "hmm, seems like dire wolves had white fur" so they found a grey wolf gene that expresses white fur and made sure their grey wolves had that gene. And it was like that for every single "dire wolf" trait they wanted expressed. It's misleading to even call it a "hybrid" - it's whatever the equivalent of "mixed breed" is for a grey wolf, if grey wolves even have breeds, but it's still 100% grey wolf. So dumb.

Even the tech they used to do the gene selection isn't new at all, they literally just used CRISPR.

 

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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

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

 

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Happy Earth Day, everyone!

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Kilauea rockin it again:

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My wife walked in on me watching volcano porn and spent the next 15 minutes talking about the idiots involved in active volcano tourism.

I've been to Kiluea but it was not venting anything but a bad smell.