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[–] justhach@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Wild the amount of money spent bring back an extict species instead of trying to protect the ones we already have.

Its like trying to justify ruining the environment and driving species to extinction as no biggie because we can just have a do-over through the power of science.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's exactly how it's being presented. I'm not necessarily against the research, but there are only a few species we'll be able to do this with. This isn't a back door to undoing damage done. Plus, why do we do it with things that will have to live in captivity, as a wild release would reek havoc on an existing biome. Actually, this is probably true of anything, even seemingly docile ones.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

The biological research will certainly be interesting. I wonder about the social aspects of these animals. Dogs are intensely social creatures. Are these direwolves going to behave like the originals? Without being raised by the originals, almost certainly not.

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