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.
The first species we Jurassic Parked are dire wolves?!
I swear humans are trying to speedrun their own demise.
Yeah, maybe try the Dodo first or something else less dangerous than a giant wolf, right?
There’s at least historical evidence of humans being able to re-extinct them if need be…
Yeah if there’s one things Humans excel at it’s killing things.
We are dire hominids, after all
I have it on good authority that life… uh… finds a way
Nah, it’s cool. If they become a problem we just de-extinct dire gorillas to fight them. What could go wrong?
Well they’ll probably team up and then we’ll have to build mecha-gorillas and mecha-dire-wolves to fight them. And we haven’t even talked about who’s going to direct.
Crazy thought, but hear me out: we put Spielberg and Bay in the mechs and let them fight over it. We’ll have so much good footage for the edit!