This article was originally posted to USA Today by Karissa Waddick and Elizabeth Weise.
A company owned by a wealthy businessman re-creates an extinct apex predator and lets it roam on a private ecological preserve.
That’s no longer just the plot of a 1990s science fiction movie.
Colossal Biosciences announcement that it had used the DNA of an extinct ice age-era dire wolf to breed new, live wolves has sparked excitement, and some fear. There’s certainly eerie similarities to “Jurassic Park” – the movie where dinosaurs came back to life.
“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the social media account for the spin-off movie franchise Jurassic World, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news.
Despite parallels between the movie and Colossal’s work, scientists and ethicists say a world where prehistoric animals are roaming city streets and gobbling up humans isn’t likely to become a reality anytime soon.
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