Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025Lots of folks quoting me and saying that if they can perfect de-extinction they can use it on more recently extinct animals. Sure, Jan. 921311
Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025How exactly are you going to make a viable population out of a handful of GMO abominations without inbreeding the shit out of them? Not to mention that it doesn’t solve any of the problems that killed them all to begin with. 812112
thanate @thanate.bsky.social · 09/04/2025...apparently I spent too much formative time in zoos reading signage about the biological issues with cheetah conservation. One more "why do people not know [obvious common knowledge]??" that isn't commonly known after all. 000
Lt. Boohura @ltuhura.bsky.social · 08/04/2025That's what I said! Inbreeding back to extinction! Assuming their food sources are still even around, that's going to be trouble, even in a zoo type of environment. 031
Mitaukano @elleisdoodling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025They want to do designer parts and crap I guarantee. 010
mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Well, you don't get one. I still think they're going for some combination of boutique big game hunting and defrauding their investors. 010
Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025That was my first thought when I saw the "dire wolves" article. I live in the American West, and it is a constant struggle for us to persuade people to make room for and live alongside ordinary wolves, an animal that still very much has a place in our ecosystem. 0335
Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 09/04/2025And I keep wondering, what would happen if the wolves were released? Would they begin hybridizing with gray wolves? Real dire wolves were far more numerous during the Pleistocene while gray wolves were rarer, so would there be competition? How soon would hunters seek out the modified wolves? 2283
Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 09/04/2025They're making them. Why would you think they'd be restricted to three, or even a handful? 200
Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025Look, I get it. Human caused extinction sucks. It’s us at our worst. We want to undo it. But this is a fool’s errand and you’re being sold a bill of goods here. 2592
