Colossal Biosciences claims it has brought back the dire wolf, a species that went extinct thousands of years ago, by editing the genes of gray wolves. The Onion examines the pros and cons of resurrecting extinct species.
PRO: No other problems for science to tackle right now
CON: Some of them are bugs
PRO: New animals at the zoo to huck rocks at
CON: Woolly mammoths ill-equipped for modern service economy
PRO: Would be interesting to see how cat interacts with ankylosaur
CON: Not enough krill to go around
PRO: Get to call the dodo ugly to its face
CON: Who’s gonna walk them?
