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(NewsNation) — There volition beryllium nary much dinosaurs.
Despite groundbreaking subject from Colossal Biosciences to make the previously extinct dire wolves, its CEO and co-founder assures Americans helium won't beryllium recreating "Jurassic Park."
"We get the dinosaur question each the time, fortunately oregon unfortunately, depending connected however you feel, determination is nary dino DNA, and there's besides not megalodon DNA," Ben Lamm told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports."
"Right now, the oldest DNA we usage is astir 1.2 cardinal years old, which is immoderate of our mammoth and step-mammoth DNA. So don't interest astir dinosaurs. It's not imaginable to bring backmost dino DNA that went extinct 65 cardinal years ago."
The dire wolves — Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi — presently unrecorded successful a secure, undisclosed "ecological preserve" successful the bluish United States and are monitored 24 hours a day. They person a 10-person attraction squad successful summation to a information team.
The triumvirate whitethorn beryllium welcoming immoderate caller members into the battalion successful the future. Lamm says this volition hap via engineering arsenic opposed to reproduction.
Recreating animals of the past volition widen beyond wolves, with the institution looking to revive the dodo, mammoth and Tasmanian tiger, among others.
"Our extremity with a batch of our taxon ... is to reintroduce those taxon backmost into the chaotic successful collaboration with indigenous radical groups, backstage landowners and the government," Lamm said.
"So we really are moving with 1 precise ample indigenous radical radical that would emotion to person dire wolves backmost connected their sovereign land, but it's conscionable a precise agelong process."
