The Elmdor-Appreciation-Out - Number of practitioners: one.

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They are GMO grey wolves not dire wolves. 20 edits out of more than 10,000 differences between species. Designer dogs.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-brea-tar-pits

But yeah, it's cool so let's make short-nosed cave bears from GMO Kodiak grizzlies for some mortiferous and deadly dire bear megafauna reason.

You know, de-extinct megafauna dire predators is an excellent idea for extremely dangerous reasons. Especially since they're backwards compatible with the wild animals they're made from and dominate their ecosystem's superpredator niche. Let's celebrate that with scientific accolades when they inevitably escape from captivity.

(i.e. earthquakes, storms or other natural disasters damaging their enclosure)

First, they'll eat themselves out of house and home making prey species that are not megafauna large enough to sustain their daily calorie requirement extinct. Next, they turn to eating people's livestock, pets and family. Lastly, humans make them extinct again for a second time for the same giant predators eating them reason. Only this time around there will be even more wild animals extinct to de-extinct.

But, don't worry. After we make humans extinct robots will make GMO animals that look like humans and call them humans. Or dire primates, or whatever.

On that tangent, Val Kilmer passed away recently and that film is not the best movie of all time but it's much better than the original. Neither can compare to the H. G. Wells novel they're based on, the 1977 version has its campy charm but lackluster production. Remake has better production and acting.