recreating extinct species

A company has successfully taken genes from fossils of the dire wolf which has been extinct for 10,000 years. It's a long read but worth the time. They're working on the wooly mammoth and others as well.
Personally, this doesn't give me the warm and fuzzys. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Does anyone want pterodactyls swooping down and grabbing us?

https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

It’s almost like someone made a movie warning us not to do this…

By their own admission they have modified 20 genes from a timber wolf by changing them to dire wolf gense. The problem is, timeber wolves have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. This means these creatures have 0.08% difference in genetics with a timber wolf. There is more than 0.08% genetic variation between any 2 individual timber wolves. Without question, these are 99.92% timber wolves. Calling them dire wolves is idiotic. One of the articles I read said that the white fur is a trait of dire wolves and that these wolves having white fur means they are dire wolves. This of course ignores the fact that many gray wolves have white fur. A large percentage of wolves from northern reaches of their range are white in color. Even in wolf populations where the dominant color is gray, a significant number of wolves will have snow white coats.

They didn't make dire wolves, they made gray wolves with less genetic modification than a beagle and wolf have in common.

As for their future of "making a mammoth", they will likely make an elephant with more hair than normal. I could do that with an elephant and industrial quantities of rogaine.

Just another example of stupid, arrogant man trying to play GOD.

Terry