While not the gigantic uber-canines of fantasy lore, these pups will become roughly-gray-wolf-sized dire wolves, and represent the first de-extincted animal species, raising a number of ethical questions about returning animals to ecosystems that may not be stable for long.
The first species we Jurassic Parked are dire wolves?!
I swear humans are trying to speedrun their own demise.
There’s at least historical evidence of humans being able to re-extinct them if need be…
Yeah if there’s one things Humans excel at it’s killing things.
We are dire hominids, after all
I have it on good authority that life… uh… finds a way
Nah, it’s cool. If they become a problem we just de-extinct dire gorillas to fight them. What could go wrong?
Well they’ll probably team up and then we’ll have to build mecha-gorillas and mecha-dire-wolves to fight them. And we haven’t even talked about who’s going to direct.
Crazy thought, but hear me out: we put Spielberg and Bay in the mechs and let them fight over it. We’ll have so much good footage for the edit!
Yeah, maybe try the Dodo first or something else less dangerous than a giant wolf, right?