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Making a reskin of a gray wolf and calling it de-extinction is like putting on a Piramid Head skin in Fortnite and calling it Silent Hill 5.
I wouldn't call a functional genomic equivalent a reskin.
But yeah I mean you're totally on point with the not equivalent to de-extinction part.
It's not equivalent though. It's a grey wolf made to look like a direwolf. If they'd crispered a grey wolf into a dire wolf, that would be one thing. This is not that. This is basically a designer breed at best.
The solution is obviously creating dire sloths
you forgot the link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-024-09743-2
Til the word 'integument'