“Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ought-back-colossal-biosciences-b2729237.html Jurassic Park, here we go!!!! "A company that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to ‘de-extinct’ woolly mammoths and other animals has claimed a breakthrough in its quest: the creation of hairier mice." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00684-1
Jurassic Park is a whole different ball game: no DNA still exists from that time, aside from that in living birds. So we can make something possibly resemble e.g. a velociraptor, but importantly it won't be one. I remember reading years back about an experiment where scientists managed to make chicken embryos grow tails and IIRC teeth - they never let the embryos develop further though... someone less lazy could google it and see if it's correct. Technically what Colossal has done is not strictly speaking dire wolves either, it's some sort of dire wolf hybrid with modern wolves. Not that I would mind an amusement zoo with "ice age" genetically engineered animals as per above limitations.
"Scientists estimate that the final best by date for DNA is about a million years after an organism's death, and that's only under the exact right conditions. We're about 65 million years too late for retrieving viable dinosaur DNA." Damn! OK, then let's make some Neanderthals... "Neanderthals, an archaic human species, lived in Eurasia from roughly 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, before disappearing around 40,000 years ago: