Dire Science

 
The film Jurrasic Park did open a debate about whether we should bring extinct animals back to life and my take on it was the hell would we?  They went with Tyrannosaurus Rex's and Velociraptor's in the film with the results being as expected if you mix some of the most lethal killing machines ever to roam the Earth with soft, squidgy humans but luckily science isn't that stupid. Isn't it?
What they have done is take the DNA from the Dire Wolf's tooth that has been extinct for 10,000 years and combined it with grey wolf cells, edited the genes to make the animals larger and more muscular, inserted the resulting cells into domestic dog egg cells and implanted those into another dog’s womb. And lo, three Dire Wolf pups were born.
The Pups, when fully grown will weigh 68kg or 150lb and measure 6ft although they may struggle to find any Woolly Mammoths to snack on today which was one of the main food sources for their ancestors.
The company behind it, Why, Colossal Biosciences Inc, are calling it the World’s first 'de-extinction' but why they went with a more muscular killing machine that can down an elephant for dinner and not a Dodo or one of those smaller and more gentle meat eating ones is my first question.  
Some geneticists are claiming that these pups can’t be true dire wolves because they aren’t being raised in a dire wolf pack, and thus can’t fully learn true dire wolf behaviour which surprisingly wouldn't be that comforting if one was chasing after you.
What use a 6ft Wolf would be is another question as you couldn't keep it as a pet and we all know that if they were released into the wild some moronic hunter with small penis syndrome would want to shoot at it so can't really see the point apart from scientists showing off that they can do this if they wanted to.