Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place. 1747371099
VotingVetInPA @votingvetinpa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Dire Wolf = performative science, seeking second round funding. 060
Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 09/04/2025What’s behind this, do you think? Is it the designer pet trade? 140
Auntie Babs @kittykatya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I do get that and you’re right, but I also vainly hope someday we can give the auk and the passenger pigeon a second chance because humans screwed them over. It’s not the pigeon’s fault that it was delicious. 1110
Smoliv & Delilah @smolimander.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Even if those animals WERE dire wolves, is bringing back two individuals really de-extinction anyways? At what cost? 040
TrashMouthPanda Ⓥ @ltlmissrealitychk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Gd fucking right man!! We're losing 50-100 breathing things (mammals, reptiles, insects, etc etc) EVERY YEAR. It's atrocious, and we need to do bettermedia.tenor.coma crowd of people are sitting in a theater clapping .ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theater clapping . 0110
miguy2.bsky.social @miguy2.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Bringing back dire wolves shouldn't be billed as a cure-all to species extinction. That said, I think it's important to do science that doesn't have an immediately visible net benefit. 030
Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Getting flashy animals gets a lot of attention and money. The same techniques, however, could be used to add genetic diversity to an endangered species. I think that's pretty exciting. Although the first zoo to get a mammoth will get my money. 2120
Marie Buhtz @mbuhtz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025And people don't seem to remember that we have destroyed the biomes (all the way down to the microorganisms) that most of these animals would live in. We need to solve the environmental issues to even give them a place to live! But nooooo, let's just create a creature we can't keep alive 😒 1462
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Maybe it is the same "logic" as wrecking the environment to support "AI" that will become smart enough to solve climate change for us. Sure, species are going extinct due to our abuses and neglect...but now we can bring 'em back so it is all ok! 2210
Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Another mammoth died. What now?" "I don't know, make more?" "Ok, time to make the mammoths." 1180
Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Way too much "can we" and nowhere's near enough "should we" these days. I grew up fascinated by technology, and now I see so much of it as stuff that should be set on fire. 080
royalmilewulver.bsky.social @royalmilewulver.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Priorities. Flashy Dire Wolves or Vaccines? There is no easy true fix for extinctions, not even ours if we don't change course. We will never match Natures creations-it's vanity, frivolous, perhaps dangerous self indulgence & diversion from our responsibilities, accepting our place in humility & awe 000
Anna @handle.invalid · 08/04/2025Thank you for putting what I was feeling into words. This whole "direwolf" and "mammoth mice" this is rediculous and not actually de-extinction. 060
