A Texas biotech company reports that it successfully brought back into existence the formerly extinct dire wolf. They accomplished this genetic engineering through the DNA from a tooth fossil. There are two males....Romulus and Remus....named after the mythical twins raised by a she-wolf....and one female....Khaleesi. They call this process....de-extinction. The twin boys are said to have founded the city of Rome....so this would in a way point to a revived Roman Empire. The name Khaleesi apparently comes from the....Game of Thrones....and means....queen....as in Queen of Babylon. I'm just throwing out examples folks.
The dire wolf is much bigger than the gray wolf and therefore would hunt bigger animals for food. The plan is for monitoring these wolves for a while before they would ever release them to the wild....which is a plan that I'm not too thrilled with. They can't even be sure if this is just a wolf that looks like what a dire wolf probably looked liked....in other words....a wolf in dire wolf's clothing....or a genuine dire wolf?
When asked in 1924 why he wanted to attempt to climb Mount Everest....British climber George Mallory said simply...."Because it is there." This was three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit. Mallory and his climbing partner probably never made it to the top....as they were last spotted about three hundred meters below it. Mallory's body was found in 1999....with a snapped rope around his waist.
So why do we today embark on such formidable tasks as bringing extinct life forms back to life? Well probably....because it is there! We have given artificial intelligence not only a lease on life....but possibly....the lease on life....because it is there. This company also cloned some red wolves....because they are near extinction. Why not?
