I’d never heard of dire wolves. Apparently it turns out they aren’t wolves anyway.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

buffy said:

I’d never heard of dire wolves. Apparently it turns out they aren’t wolves anyway.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

Interesting.

Is there any chance of resurrecting something from 13k years ago through DNA?

I learned dire wolves were a thing in a novel I read a few months ago. Cannot remember context, of course.

buffy said:

I’d never heard of dire wolves. Apparently it turns out they aren’t wolves anyway.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

This seems oversimplified. ~Sometimes such convergence is only rough, such as both birds and bats evolving wings despite their differing anatomy.
Wings yes but two of several very different types. e.g. the pterosaurs, birds, and bats plus flying insects also.

Heck, not even canids. This rather puts a hole in plans to bring it back.

I mispoke. They are canids, but they are not in the genus Canis.

dv said:

I mispoke. They are canids, but they are not in the genus Canis.

No worries.

dv said:

I mispoke. They are canids, but they are not in the genus Canis.

Luckily for your self esteem we were all too polite to point our your egregious error. This time.

Devil: “not a dog: a wolf!”

captain_spalding said:

Devil: “not a dog: a wolf!”

And his horse’s name?

Peak Warming Man said:

captain_spalding said:

Devil: “not a dog: a wolf!”

And his horse’s name?

Had to rack the brain.

Hero?

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

captain_spalding said:

Devil: “not a dog: a wolf!”

And his horse’s name?

Had to rack the brain.

Hero?

Well done.

Big and bitey

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Probly where Herbert got the name D wolves in the Dune saga.

sibeen said:

buffy said:

I’d never heard of dire wolves. Apparently it turns out they aren’t wolves anyway.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

Interesting.

Is there any chance of resurrecting something from 13k years ago through DNA?

Not unless you get a large fraction of whole body DNA. Then it gets hybridised with the closest living relative to form a chimera. Then hope it survives.

I’d like to meet a neanderthal. 40k to 24k years ago.

“After sequencing five genomes from dire wolf fossils between 50,000 and 13,000 years old, the researchers found that the animals belonged to a much older lineage of dogs. Dire wolves, it now appeared, had evolved in the Americas and had no close kinship with the gray wolves from Eurasia; the last time gray wolves and dire wolves shared a common ancestor was about 5.7 million years ago.”

Fine. I had heard of dire wolves, but not in the past 45 years. They used to be pictured with cavemen in dioramas.