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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Interesting. So Jurassic Park became reality someday?

We are far from a Jurassic Park reality, but we will likely see a Pleistocene Park in our lifetime. Colossal Bioscience plans to revive species such as the wooly mammoth, the dodo, the thylacine, and many others that have went extinct in the past 20,000 years. That is if we have the genetic material to do so.

It should be noted that these current individuals are only a partial revival. They are gray wolves that have been modified to look, act, and sound like dire wolves. Colossal does plan to revive the species with their exact genome in the near future. Here is another source that explains more:

https://www.wired.com/story/scientis...olf-deextinct/

That said, could we eventually have a Jurassic Park? It is probable now. These dire wolves were created by editing gray wolf genetics. No actual dire wolf genetic material was used in the cloning process. Once AI technology advances further than it already has, it could, in theory, decode the genomes of avians and crocodilians and sequence hypothetical genomes to re-create the entire genomes of extinct archosaurs. Once a genome has been determined to be analogous to a specific extinct species, then the genetic material of their closest living relative could be edited to resemble the extinct species and a surrogate would be selected to carry the egg.

For example, if one wanted to revive a velociraptor, then you could edit the genes of a cassowary and then have a rhea or an emu serve as a surrogate. What would hatch would be a near identical match to the extinct velociraptor, to the best ability AI could muster without having any genetic material from a velociraptor to reference. We are in untested waters with this scientific achievement and the can of worms of de-extinction has been opened.

The scariest aspect of this announcement is Colossal never disclosed they were working on de-extincting dire wolves. Just like in Jurassic Park, InGen never disclosed their clone of the Spinosaurus. This is a private company just like InGen possesses the most powerful technology known to man and wields it like a kid who just found his dad's gun. What else are they working on that the public doesn't know about?