One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve... - ThreadSky

ven999.bsky.social•14 days ago

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michaelakellar.bsky.social•14 days ago

Welcome Back to the Golden Age of The Grift.

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’m also announcing some of my own resurrected animals, from my new company Globallox Bioscience:
1) THE DODO

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•14 days ago

2) THE MAMMOTH

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•14 days ago

3) THYLACINE

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jmergeay.bsky.social•14 days ago

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d6bass.com•14 days ago

I always knew those Boston Terriers were hiding something.

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ockenden.com•14 days ago

MAGA-Don

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frankshallot.bsky.social•14 days ago

AI. There's no I in maga

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jahiggins.bsky.social•14 days ago

Well, now you're just being sarcastic....

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fcntl.bsky.social•14 days ago

And you said it couldn't be done.

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paulfranklin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Pretty cool that they were able to add a gene to make the mammoth talk. And also make it invisible to anyone other than a giant yellow bird.

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•14 days ago

Well we’re also bring back the moa

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paulfranklin.bsky.social•14 days ago

and then it's onto the dinosaurs!

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johnyofunny.bsky.social•14 days ago

Now that's a project worth getting behind 😂

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iainl7.bsky.social•14 days ago

Bloody hell, is that a velociraptor?

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dmhardcc.bsky.social•14 days ago

Best response to their future press releases. Sir that is not a “de-extinct” dodo it is a pigeon in a hat

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damianbarr.bsky.social•14 days ago

Blessed Dodo

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commamonger.bsky.social•14 days ago

Bless his little hat.

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dog-the-wag.bsky.social•14 days ago

Now orange dumpty’s sec of interior is all excited that we are de-extincting animals (we aren’t). This is so he can excuse the irreparable harm they want to inflict on our natural world. They can claim “no worries, we will de-extinct whatever we destroy.” I hate stupid people so so much.

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embroideredyeti.bsky.social•14 days ago

Loving the BE/AE spelling analogy; that really drives home the point how minor the differences are. Sure, a DNA edit can have significant effects, but it really is a handful of needles in a haystack, and by no means does it change the species.

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hemai.bsky.social•14 days ago

Here's another reason https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/10/trump-endangered-species-protections-dire-wolves/

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wilderon.bsky.social•13 days ago

the “red wolves” they cloned were not officially red wolves either. wish they would be way more truthful

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cheekyginger.bsky.social•14 days ago

Well, that's good. Bringing back dire wolves would probably be a very bad idea, even if we could do it. So it is probably better that it's just pseudoscience startup bullshit.

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filbyhead.bsky.social•14 days ago

I would love them to be brought back. Sabre-toothed tigers as well. We could release packs of them in legislative chambers around the world.

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stevie1666.bsky.social•14 days ago

This story was dropping on all the Aussie news channels yesterday, allowing me to be performatively angry about it having already seen your comments😁

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allegrofiona.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's all marketing. This is how biotech bros get millions in startup funds without bringing in actual money, while real labs struggle to get funding for cancer studies. They could have just crossed the wolf with a German shepherd and gotten a more distinct result. "DIYer wolf"

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pjh-ranmore.bsky.social•14 days ago

I just couldn't resist....👇

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agatakobe.bsky.social•14 days ago

Brilliant, Adam. But poor baby Ibex.

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karinqed.bsky.social•14 days ago

Thinking you might have to repeat yourself even more often, more frequently, and louder.

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bob-parker.bsky.social•14 days ago

How about habitat restoration for the ones who are already here instead of the masturbatory science of bringing back extinct species (with no habitat to live in!)?

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chrissamsdad.bsky.social•14 days ago

An idea to help elephants better able to survive climate change: they could make them predators of billionaires.

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tomwoodstock1.bsky.social•14 days ago

Remind me not to take the kids to see Santa if you’re going to be at the garden centre. They mightn’t be real dire wolves, but it’s a cool story at a time when there a precious fee of those about.

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