Friday offtopic. Heard of those direwolves?

[airiefairie]

Well, they aren't exactly direwolves.

And naming one of them Khaleesi was an affront to the entire Game of Thrones fanbase, duh!

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

Comments

[garote]

Well, naming one after a fictional beast was kind of an admission that they were creating something that is, shall we say, biologically non-canon...

[asthfghl]

Anyone who knows a thing about GoT would know that, one: Khaleesi isn't the name of a beast, and two: naming a direwolf after that particular character makes no sense whatsoever. Duh.

[garote]

Ya got me. I have not been able to get through a single episode of that show. Every time I try I get bored and wander off.