Full Restoration

A side effect of living in the same town as Iowa State University is rubbing shoulders with both agronomy students and farmers.

You pick up bits and pieces of practical genetic manipulation here and there.

Nothing you can use for anything, but enough to not be lost in the conversation.

Reading about these dire wolves is sounding awfully similar to listening to two friends discussing soy beans.

That makes me say that they have not made dire wolves at all.

It's not a gray wolf or dire wolf.  It's something new.

There was a quote with several articles that I can't find now but the gist was they wanted to restore the dire wolf to its proper place in the ecology.

So you're going to kill those three pups you spent so much time and money making?

Because that's a dire wolf's proper place in the ecology.  Dead.

They went extinct when gray wolves kept going.

I'm not a scientist, but part of me thinks the damn things might have been dumb as posts and that's why La Brea is full of dire wolf skulls and not gray wolf skulls...