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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Also, what is the game plan here? To sell GMO exhibits to zoos? To try to do a Jurassic Park, but without dinosaurs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The point is to get people excited so they can get funding to keep developing the technologies that will make this kind of genetic engineering commercially viable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Sure... But now they've got these wolves for the next 14 years

They can't "reextinct" dire wolves or release them, so they're now in the zoo business one way or the other

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