Colossal announced the return of the direwolves last week. Since then the story has spread all over the world. Millions of people seem to be as thrilled by the news as I am.
Yes, there are nay-sayers too. I will not get into that here, the debates are raging all over the internet. I will let the scientists argue the genetics. The things that trouble me more are the people saying, “Why? We did not need a direwolf”), those arguing that god made the direwolf extinct and man has no right to undo what he has done, the movie buffs who think we’re now blundering into Jurassic Park (fine book, great movie, but no, we are not going to have packs of direwolves chasing children through Central Park)… but most of all, I am horrified by those now saying that now that we have mastered de-extinction, we don’t need the Endangered Species Act, so let’s gut that for the benefit of the oil and gas industry. (Trump and his MAGies have been trying to do this for years).