This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article. These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing. - ThreadSky

ironspike.bsky.social • 6 days ago

This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article.

These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.

Reposted from CNN

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. cnn.it/3EcYuru

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jongraywb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Cant wait for the

**checks notes**

“Diredoodle”

abbylark.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ah yes a species of horseshit where you launder the false claims of the self-aggrandizing company by attributing your bullshit headline to "scientists"

ironspike.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also, dire wolves weren't wolves.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

ironspike.bsky.social•6 days ago

I do believe "de-extinction" of one species or another will happen in the next 20 years or so for REAL, but this ain't it. This is just three freak wolves.

ironspike.bsky.social•6 days ago

(Of course, that fact won't stop some dipshits with more money than sense from paying $500,000 for a "dire wolf" puppy. Which, I imagine, is exactly the point of publicizing this.)

tonemilazzo.com•6 days ago

Waiting for the headline when someone who can't tell a dog from a pumped up wild animal gets their throat ripped out by one of these things.

abbylark.bsky.social•6 days ago

Game of Thrones freaks who missed their chance to name their babies khaleesi suddenly all activating at once 😱

nfornihilism.net•6 days ago

i think the funniest would be the dodo

ironspike.bsky.social•6 days ago

That would be justice, we owe that poor bird

fablepaint.bsky.social•6 days ago

id say "no dont do jurassic bark" but this level of grift doesnt earn the pun.

fablepaint.bsky.social•6 days ago

also as one of the peeps behind the OG deviantart dire wolf comic (having put a ton of time into learning about these animals)

today has been...annoying.

fablepaint.bsky.social•6 days ago

that doesnt make me an authority. but feeling like more of one than the folks behind this charade doesnt speak highly to their standards.

just say youre making a cool new dog breed and ditch the de-extinction language. It's more honest.

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