The Dire Wolf Revived from Extinction, Montana Rancher Responds

This is how it all starts. Didn't we already watch this movie...Jurassic Park? Plus, remember the Montana man who got in trouble for "sheepzilla?"

We played the audio of the dire wolf pups howling on the radio earlier this week, and talked about this crazy story where they took the DNA of dire wolves from 10,000 years ago and created these living, howling dire wolf pups.

Here's the tweet that sparked the conversation: 

That prompted a great phone call from a rancher named Josh in Moore, Montana: 

"Well, you know, I think it's crazy that they can extract DNA from fossils from however long ago you said they did, or how long they've been extinct, but we can't find a cure for cancer. I mean, technology has come that far, and we can recreate a 250-300 pound wolf. And I'm a cattle rancher, so I don't think more wolves are the answer anyway."

I replied with this: "There was like, that 80 year old Montana guy who was playing around with sheep ball DNA and concocted a...that guy got arrested and prosecuted. But, yeah, hey, bring back a dire wolf from extinction- but leave the sheep ball guy in prison apparently, right?

Here's the audio of the phone call:

What's next? Here kitty kitty....ha.

One commenter in the X thread above said, "This is a bad idea. We are not God."

Another said, "Get real! We can't have them in cattle and sheep country! Re-home them to another state! We support and love our Montana ranchers!"

One of our listeners also raised a really good question...if this can prove now that no animal can technically be extinct...no need for the Endangered Species Act?

By the way, Grok AI tells me that the largest concentration of Dire Wolves is traced back to the Los Angeles area. Will some liberal federal judge reintroduce the Dire Wolves into the Hollywood hills?