This is quite interesting and a little scary. They claim they will be able to bring back the Woolly Mammoth within the next decade. Again, sounds exciting … but do we really want our very own Jurassic Park or Ice Age? LOL😁
I love the science aspect though. And the pups are gorgeous! The 3 new babies are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi. Now everyone is going to want their own Dire Wolf to relive Game of Thrones 
At the start he’s so cute and you’d eat him up.
At the end, he’d eat you up!
I used to walk a dog like this, he was half Arctic Wolf and half German Shepard, and he was massive, you could throw a saddle on him he was that big.
I love dogs… and wolves… but not wolves up close ha ha
… except, it isn’t, not really;
That’s what most are figuring. The article had experts who don’t agree and are not on board with this as well. I figured I would post anyway because it was an interesting story and something not about our “dire” situation right now with the maniacs in D.C. Anyhoo … as you were 
There’s a little bit of news media and marketing hype occurring with the dire wolf announcement. Even Colossal (the company that created the wolves) doesn’t claim they’re recreating animals that are genetically identical to the originals. Here’s a quote from the Time Magazine cover article about the dire wolves. The passage quotes a Colossal scientist on the company’s efforts to recreate a woolly mammoth.
No matter how the resulting woolly baby might look, Colossal admits that in some respects it will be a mammoth in name only. “They’re elephant surrogates that have some mammoth DNA to make them re-create core characteristics belonging to mammoths,” says Shapiro.
But that might be a distinction without a difference. If it looks like a mammoth and behaves like a mammoth and, if given the opportunity to breed with another engineered elephant with mammoth-mimicking DNA, produces a baby mammoth, it’s hard to say that the species hasn’t been brought back from the dead. “Our mammoths and dire wolves are mammoths and dire wolves by that definition,” says Shapiro. “They have the key traits that make that lineage of organisms distinct.”
I’m unsure why so many people have reservations about recreating extinct large animals. I would love to see thylacines and dodos brought back, even if they’re confined to zoos. I think the danger is in modifying smaller species and then releasing them into the wild with unintended consequences. The Time Magazine article also mentions this.
As an aside, scientists have retrieved hundreds of dire wolf bones from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. There’s a display in the museum on the site with dozens of their skulls mounted on a wall.
