With news of the Dire Wolf being partly revived, how would you feel about the Giant Irish Deer back roaming the landscape?

by FlappyDuck01

22 comments

  1. If you hit one with your car, is it worse than hitting a moose?

  2. I would love it! However their habitat no longer exists, they mainly ate a specific type of moss which is very rare now so it might not be possible. However if it is it would be great they look amazing!

  3. Just to clarify, the dire wolf news is clickbait. Those pups aren’t the same genus. But yes I would love to see a return of bigger Irish animals!

  4. A yes, as it wanders majestically through Ash Drive, over Brooke Close and smells the freedom as it prances up Orchard way.

  6. You just know it would only be 5 minutes before the scangers start keeping them as pets

  7. Everyone would need some massive SUV then. Imagine hitting one of those in an Avensis.

  8. Do the people saying yes know just *how* big these things were?

  9. It’d be cool, but Ireland isn’t the same as it was. It’d be unfair to them and for humans to let them loose into a country full of vehicles, walls and towns.

  10. They’d get caught in the trees and die out again

  11. I imagine these things were around when the terrain in Ireland was very different and not as ecologically dead as it is today. So it probably won’t be a good idea putting a gigantic animal in an ecosystem that can’t support it.

    There’s a reason why a lot of these megafauna went extinct and things aren’t getting any better for them. Creating some kind of hybrid mutant to mimic an extinct animal only for it to suffer extinction all over again is unethical.

  12. Ireland doesn’t have the habitat to reintroduce any type of large mammal and that’s just a fact we have to live with unfortunately. We can’t have back wolves, lynxes, bears, or various other things, also including native animals that actually died due to natural selection (Their antlers grew too large for forest density at the time). There’s no reason to even consider this.

    Edit: Also, the dire wolves were not partly revived. Grey wolves were genetically modified. Dire wolves do not belong in the same genus as grey wolves.

  13. The Healy Rae’s build Jurassic Pairc, reviving lost and extinct Irish animals like the giant Irish deer and the Celtic tiger.

  14. Core childhood memory that shines through the core 1980s traumatic Irish upbringing.

    Off we go with our recently separated da for a day out to the natural history museum in Dublin, I’ve a big undiagnosed autistic head on me so I’m in my element, my brother too my sister not so much, My dad got my sister to close her eyes and then put out her hand and when she opened them, her hand was out touching the expertly restored scrotum of a huge Irish deer, she cried her eyes out but that to my 12 year old senses was the funniest thing ever to happen, even the flashback i just had made me lol so fucking hard that I can’t wait to bring this up next dinner with her 🤣

  15. Release a herd in Rathkeale and let nature take its course…

  16. I feel like those headings are overblown. It’s only that some genes were converted to the dire wolf version. It’s more like wolves with some direwolf genes. I wouldn’t call that even a partial revival.

  17. Time magazine at it again, these publications are getting so lazy. Editing grey wolf DNA doesn’t make a Dire Wolf. They just expressed 20 genes for a lookalike, Remus (the male) is white coated for..reasons, while the original dire wolf coat is thought to be reddish brown. Dire Wolves are related to African jackals.

    This whole thing is like taking a tiger and expressing Thylacine traits and saying HEY it’s a Tasmanian tiger!

  22. It would be so cool to get all of our extinct fauna back. Wolves, deer, bears… Place would be unrecognisable

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