(NewsNation) — There will be no more dinosaurs.
Despite groundbreaking science from Colossal Biosciences to generate the previously extinct dire wolves, its CEO and co-founder assures Americans he won’t be recreating “Jurassic Park.”
“We get the dinosaur question all the time, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you feel, there is no dino DNA, and there’s also not megalodon DNA,” Ben Lamm told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
“Right now, the oldest DNA we use is about 1.2 million years old, which is some of our mammoth and step-mammoth DNA. So don’t worry about dinosaurs. It’s not possible to bring back dino DNA that went extinct 65 million years ago.”
The dire wolves — Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi — currently live in a secure, undisclosed “ecological preserve” in the northern United States and are monitored 24 hours a day. They have a 10-person care team in addition to a security team.
The triumvirate may be welcoming some new members into the pack in the future. Lamm says this will occur via engineering as opposed to reproduction.
Recreating animals of the past will extend beyond wolves, with the company looking to revive the dodo, mammoth and Tasmanian tiger, among others.
“Our goal with a lot of our species … is to reintroduce those species back into the wild in collaboration with indigenous people groups, private landowners and the government,” Lamm said.
“So we actually are working with one very large indigenous people group that would love to have dire wolves back on their sovereign land, but it’s just a very long process.”