Welcome to the Metalupo, who is not a wolf of Mark Zuckerberg’s metvers. We start from an established assumption but often little known by those who are not an ethologist: all our dogs up to twelve thousand years ago did not exist, and there were no breeds of dogs, they are wolves tamed and selected by us to create the various breeds (at the beginning starting with making more sociable wolves reproduce, and then choosing gradually the “forms”: a chihuahua, in nature, in nature. Never existed, but still has the DNA of the wolf from which it descends).
So, what is metalpum? They are three puppies of wolves, Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, who died deceased years ago, but the scientists have reborn. On X, Colossal Biosciences posted the first howl of a wolf extinct for ten thousand years. How did they do? Genetic engineering, modifying the complete genome of an enoconio, reconstructed by the DNA of fossils dating back to 11500 and 72000 years ago. To give birth to the three puppies, the genetic code of the common gray wolf municipality was rewritten and then normal dogs were used as surrogate mothers (as I said above, dogs have the wolf DNA). 20 changes were enough in 14 genes of the gray wolf, and those 20 changes led to an increase in musculature, jaws, teeth, and a mutation of the white hair.
Obviously everyone was unleashed in thinking about a possible Jurassic Park, also because Colossal is working on the Mammut DNA. There is a small problem: the mammoths got donated about ten thousand years ago (although some specimens of woolly mammoths survived on the island of Wrangel, off Siberia, up to 2000 years ago), their “de-ensection” is technically possible. For dinosaurs it applies to a completely different matter, because the DNA has an expiry date. Estimated (by excess) in a million years, pity that the last dinosaur has become extinct sixty -eight millions of years ago. In the case of the metalpo, moreover, we had an animal (the dog) to be able to carry on the surrogate pregnancy, but even if we had the DNA of a dinosaur we would not have animals capable of acting as “surrogate mothers”.
Rather it would be possible, technically, to recreate a Neanderthal, who was not our ancestor, as we commonly think, but a human species in its own right: we have complete the DNA. Nobody has ever tried because ethical problems would be enormous. You are taking care to bring more recent animals back to life, in addition to the Mammut also the Aurochs and the Dodo, but at the bottom of what pro? We think vice versa of the Panda: a carnivorous that eats for laziness bamboo all day, with the female who is fertile only one day a year and that day at the male panda does not even go through the mind to mate, so the remaining specimens exist because we care them, they even made porn for the Panda. As Barbascura X says in its popular ugly science videos dedicated to the Panda: they are putting it all about to get out of time, and we force them not to do it.
Finally, a paradox of our human species: while on the one hand we take care of bringing back to life extinct species, there are living species, such as the tiger,
The orangutan, the rhinoceros, the African elephant, the pangolino, even bees (without which the natural pollination would collapse) that we are leading to the entertainment. In any case: in the meantime, let’s enjoy the ululate of the metalpum.