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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
(www.newscientist.com)
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Their "ecological niche" was eating us. We wiped them out or made them into pets. No need to bring them back!
Really? A species that was hunted to extinction after humans entered North America, and you think their ecological niche was eating humans?
They weren't hunted into extinction, their megafauna prey was. Humans outcompeted them