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Shut up

are you on their payroll or something?

dire wolves this, wooly mammoths that the only thing that will fix the world's ecosystems is combatting the major polluters that cause climate change. it's way more simple than whatever this is.

you guys really have to stop soft-pedaling their PR shit for their fake "resurrections"

Nevermind that all of this is false, adding back species that went extinct 10,000 years ago is not a stabilizing force. Also, stop writing about science, Rolling Stone.

This is wild 🤔🤔

They didn't resurrect the dire wolf.

Didn’t read, did they mention the fact that the “dire wolves” are “bullshit”?

You're usually better than this crap

Please stop lying about the wolves

Haha! RS got suckered!

They didn't 'de-extinct' anything, you credulous ninnies. bsky.app/profile/adam...

Why are you lying to your readers?

It's you, Rolling Stone, you are the one getting played for them to succeed in the attention economy. How sadly credulous you show yourselves to be.

Adding new invasive species into an ecosystem is not conservation. Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these idiots?

Delete your magazine

Why are you lying to your readers?

i'm not an expert but i do not think that is the one essential truth of biology

Lol, I have those same magnifiers, they're like $20. Also "what do you mean "clean room""?

Where are they going to live?

See the sci fi movie Free download archive.org/details/colo...

You are actual clowns for parroting this absolute gibberish

Co-founder is a close friend of Epstein so….

They didn’t resurrect the dire wolf. They tweaked a little more than a dozen genes in modern gray wolves, without adding any genes harvested from actual dire wolves.

I came here to tell you that they absolutely did not resurrect dire wolves, but everyone else already did that. So I'll just say you should be ashamed of yourselves and that it's a good time to delete this article.

no (but you knew that)

hahaha you got played

None of this would restore or stabilize any ecosystem even if they could actually resurrect these species, the climate they lived in no longer exists and neither do their food sources

When you do science reporting, have you ever considered contacting some scientists? 🧐

Are you guys ever embarrassed by how bad your science reporting is that you just swallow the corporate press releases at face value? This company has done neither of these things. You need to talk to an actual expert in genetics, or just any competent scientist to explain this to you.

They didn't bring back the dire wolf, so I'll remain skeptical for now.

They , quite literally , did not being back the dire wolf - this is sloppy journalism that could have easily avoided making that claim by simple fact checking against their PR department debunked claim

I request putting the woolly mammoth on hold & try resurrecting integrity and accountability in American politics. The non-scientific attempts to do this have failed miserably.

They didn't bring back dire wolves. I can't decide if you guys get paid for these advertisements, or if your editors are just so dumb they always fall for them.

no they didn’t! no they did not!!!!!

This is all nonsense, do better and stop running press releases from scammers

Good Lord, Rolling Stone, did you actually ask any biologists about this? You're basically publishing a press release from some of sciences most notorious bull-shitters

As an editor, gonna use this as an example of why exclamation points backfire terribly in most non-dialogue writing cases. Thank you for your service also dear god have you no shame

They did no such thing! And they won't bring back the woolly mammoth either.

Imagine being even a little bit critical of a press release before doing free pr work for a bunch of techbro dipshits

That is obviously not at all their "goal". Come on, most of our ecological problems are not because of a lack of mammoth.

Except they did not, in fact, resurrect the dire wolf or even do anything close to that. This is called a "grift", something everyone should be familiar with by now.

Come on Rolling Stone, I thought you were better than that. They didn't resurrect shit. They just fucked with the genes of a regular wolf to make it kinda look like a dire wolf. You don't gotta lie for the rich people

If you think dire wolves have been resurrected, then you are scientifically illiterate.

This is ridiculous. You "re-wild" by actually protecting existing ecosystem, not whatever this is.

Shouldn't you be publishing false rape accusations a college student made up to avoid having to explain her imaginary boyfriend or something?

You’re getting used for PR you dummies

You have no idea what you are writing about.

The Dire Wolf wasn't, is the short version. This won't be either.

The fact such a massive error "made it past" both the writers and editors of this piece means you all are either wildly incompetent or complicit in generating slop

TIL knocking in a few genes is RESURRECTING AN EXTINCT SPECIES

George When I Catch You … I Will Make You Listen To My Idea About Replacing Wild Deer With Big Beefy Deer We Can Ride Like Thranduil in the hobbit movies.

Why are you propagating this fanciful, dressed-up lie? It's a sales pitch, not "making sci-fi real". Makes you look gullible.

No they did not, Rolling Stone. Shame on your science reporters and editorial staff for falling for this ridiculous lie.

Stop doing ad read that is literally just lies ffs

Didn’t happen. Maybe stick to writing about music, dumbasses.

They did not bring back dire wolves. They made a new thing that isn't the old thing and called it the old thing. Y'all would glaze snake oil salesmen if you were an 1800's magazine.

That's false information. They have not 'resurrected the dire wolf', stop spreading bullshit.

The Onion is posting valid news and you are playing Jurassic Park

Holy crap. Talk to a real scientist. This is all marketing garbage. They haven’t “resurrected” anything.

Why are you lying to your readers?

You could write an article on the tie to Epstein instead, but no, you're doing BS PR

*correx.: it's pp. 59-60, not 60-61.

The "direwolf" announcement happened during my most recent reread. (I've read the novel over 30 times since 1991.)

Aren't supposed to do journalism? cause that aint it

They did not resurrect the dire wolf.

they did not bring back dire wolves

Hey, Alex, wanna buy a bridge? Real cheap too, great return on investment.

The first thing that ran through my mind…

Smoke and mirrors!

The did not resurrect a dire wolf. They meddled with the DNA of existing wolves.

No they didn't bro, what're you smoking today? They're just part of the kill-all-animals billionaires fund.

They didn't 'resurrect' the Dire Wolf, though! Stop doing ad copy and attempt doing journalism ffs

Stop just pasting and posting their marketing copy…. This is just like all the AI tech companies…. They lie. They did not resurrect a dire wolf either

They didn't resurrect the dire wolf. This is an ad. I thought you were journalists?

Pretty sure if you take money to play this song it counts as payola.

Stabilize what? What ecosystem do they think is clamoring for a wooly mammoth?

no they didn't, and no they won't

Show us these dire wolves. I’ll wait.

We made the Daemonculaba from the novel "Don't create the Daemonculaba"

The credulity expressed here ill becomes a brand that's done some genuinely excellent journalism in the past year. This spurt of helping the scammers at Colossal get rich and add fuel to the right's "if we can clone extinct animals we don't need an endangered list" campwign is fuckin gross.

They didn’t resurrect the dire wolf, they made GMO grey wolves. They basically fucked around with a modern organism, said, “close enough,” and went on a publicity tour. You really shouldn’t accept press releases at face value.

Where's my dire wolf, Bruce? I was promised a dire wolf!

What in the slopaganda?? Did Colossal write this???

OR, could we try burning less fossil fuel to stabilize modern ecosystems? Maybe we could give that a try?

Bullshit. Talk to a real scientist about this. Stop spreading these lies.

Kinda funny premise given that they didn’t bring back the dire wolf.

They didn't bring back dire wolves, ffs.

Stop falling for this.

Can we not do this for every single flavour of pseudoscientific scam artist. They haven't done any of these things and their claims are about as credible as Musk's delusions of orbital data centres and martian colonies.

Slow news day huh

Wow really? No totally fucking fake actually.

in fact, there's a recent 2 part episode from QAA podcast all about Colossal and its mickey-mouse nazi origins! Stop mindlessly parroting ad copy for these fascist freaks and do even a little bit of research!

Stick to music.

How much they pay you for this one?

hey how much money does it cost to do publish brown-nosing PR in Rolling Stone, asking for a startup

I am glad to see this post getting remorselessly dragged.

Purveyor of the lies and bullshit of conmen, shame on you. You're aiming for clicks but hat you're getting is permanent blocks.

DONT FEED THE TROLL

They did nothing of the sort. It's a modern wolf genetically altered to create a boutique "direwolf" look. It's no different from creating a labradodle. Plus the co-founder has Epstein's tissue samples and DNA from when they were creep friends.

No. They did not “resurrect the dire wolf”. They gene-spliced a regular wolf into a larger regular wolf. So just a bit of background research please.

Yeah. They didn’t and they won’t and you are idiots for doing their PR and marketing for them.

But they didn't bring back dire wolves. They used gene modification on Grey wolves to mimic traits found in dire wolves.

As a scientist, I can tell you every sentence written in this headline is not true 🫠🫠

They didn't "bring back" fuck all.

They did NOT resurrect the Dire Wolf. Please get a proper science journalist on your team.

No fucking Dire Wolf was resurrected. Please stop your fucking lying- you sound like fox~ #TuesdaySky

Fact check your shit

It’s time.

Fuck off with this “resurrection” bullshit and write about what they actually did instead of suckling at their PR teats.

"stabilize" hahahah! the actual goal: attention and investor money collection