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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
(www.newscientist.com)
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Sounds like if the ship of theseus burnt to the ground, and years later, someone recreates it by modifying a boat to look like the original, would that be the ship of theseus?
More like the ship burned down and you re-created it from detailed blueprints. Same ship? No, same class of ship? Sure.
No, there were even animals more closely related to dire wolves, this is like if you took a boat that already existed, found some blueprints for a small portion of the parts of the ship and kinda copied that but not exactly either