Demonstrating his commitment, George R.R. Martin visited the private preserve where the dire wolf pups reside, an area certified by the American Humane Society.
Game of Thrones‘ author George RR Martin, who helped helped bring the long-extinct dire wolf back to life after years of extinction has shared his experience of meeting the pups on his new blog.
“So D-Day came early, on April 7 instead of April 8. Welcome to Direwolf Day. I’ve been holding my tongue for months now, sworn to silence yet dying to tell the world. Pardon my shouting, but… THE DIREWOLF IS BACK… There’s so much more to say… and a lot of stories out there are saying it. For my part… well, let me first thank Peter Jackson, who phoned me up from New Zealand with a mysterious suggestion that I phone this guy named Ben Lamm, who had something huge he wanted to share with me. Peter had taken an oath of silence, so he could not share the secret with me, but I could hear the excitement in his voice, so I made the call. And damn, I am sure glad I did,” he wrote a long note on Facebook along with a link to his blog.
“Extinct for more than ten thousand years, but extinct no longer, thanks to Ben Lamm, George Church, Beth Shapiro, and the rest of their team of mad scientists at Colossal, the world leader in the science of “de-extinction.” I met them all in February, in… well, that would be telling. And I met Romulus and Remus too. Here’s me and Romulus. (Or maybe Remus. They’re twins, and hard to tell apart,” he wrote before sharing a photo with one of the three pups who are back from extinction.
