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The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Prehistoric American Canine, Has Been Resurrected (thedebrief.org)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn. You're right. Those journalists were sneaky slipping in this quote and not challenging/clarifying it:

“We took a 13,000-year-old tooth, and a 74,000-year-old skull, and we made puppies,” Lamm told The Debrief.