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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

A warning from the Toronto Zoo CEO: Resurrecting the extinct dire wolf is an ‘incredibly dangerous’ move that comes with ‘enormous’ risk

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A warning from the Toronto Zoo CEO: Resurrecting the extinct dire wolf is an ‘incredibly dangerous’ move that comes with ‘enormous’ risk

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago
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The head of the Toronto Zoo called the decision by a U.S. company to genetically engineer three dire wolf pups an 'incredibly dangerous' move that comes with 'enormous' risk.
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  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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    A note that they did not resurrect the dire wolf.

    Their marketing department says they did.

    What they did was create a new subspecies of grey wolf that outwardly resembles a Dire wolf.

    The two species diverged between 2.5 and 6 million years ago.

    Six million years ago we were orangutan like apes living in trees and Chimps/Bonobos were too. 2.5 million our ancestors were Homo Habilis.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    I’ve seen Jurassic park what’s the worst thing that could happen?

    Canus indominotus?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Some fat tech bro could wind up killing everyone by turning off the security system 🤷🏻‍♂️

      • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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        Nuh uh uh you didn’t enter the secret code

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          I always quote this if someone asks me for something without saying please.

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        28 days ago

  • TinyHorse@feddit.org
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    But we are in dire need for this wolf.

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    Nah, if it turns out to be a real problem, humans are REALLY good at extincting megafauna.

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    Sounds like his request for having them in an exhibit was denied

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