So, what did they create? My guess is, they opened the door to acceptance of gene editing.
Puppies are soooo cute, so it must be OK for humans, right?

As soon as this hit the news, I knew there was soooo much wrong with it.
Why not the Mastodon, or the Wooly Mammoth? Because everyone loves puppies!
Anyway, I digress.

Read for yourself.

Dire Wolves are not actually wolves! Dire wolf is a different genus than dogs, wolves, and coyotes, which are all in the genus Canis. Surprisingly, their closest relatives are African jackals rather than the grey wolf. A study published in Nature has rewritten the natural history of the dire wolf.

The international team behind the study looked at 46 samples of bones, ultimately only finding five with usable DNA. Comparing the data on dire wolves against the sequenced genomes of various other canines revealed a genetic gap large enough to rename dire wolves as the only species in a genus all their own. "We had thought that the dire and grey wolf lineages diverged two million years ago at most. Instead, the new paper shows a likely split nearly six million years ago," says Balisi.  Dire wolves have been reclassified from Canis dirus to Aenocyon dirus. "At this point, my question was: if not the grey wolf, then to which living dog species is the dire wolf most closely related? So I was glad that the paper has an answer for that, too: African jackals rather than North American Canis," says Balisi. "Rather than looking only to the grey wolf for comparison, we can now also include African jackals as a possible reference."

https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves