Billionaire Elon Musk may be on the outs with President Donald Trump now but he’s still very much active on social media. With dire wolves seemingly back from dead now that the “de-extinction company” Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered three wolves that resemble the extinct real-life predators, the Tesla boss has shared his new pet wish.

The tech titan initially shared the dire wolf Time Magazine cover which crossed out the word “Extinct” and introduced Remus, one of the first wolf pups Colossal successfully cloned. Along with the magazine boost, Musk also shared an image of the newly born dire wolf pups (‘reborn October 1, 2024) resting on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. The superhit HBO TV series based George RR Martin’s fantasy novels attributed these majestic creatures with a special status as the sigil or mascot of House Stark.

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Elon Musk’s pet wish to company that cloned dire wolf pups

In a follow-up post, Elon Musk finally put forth his wish. He requested Colossal to “Please make a miniature pet wooly mammoth.” Notably, Ben Lamm and George Church’s Texas-based biotech company’s founding agenda was to bring back the woolly mammoth and “rapidly advance the field of species de-extinction.” Although the woolly mammoth’s cloned resurrection has yet to make it to the de-extinction success map, the company revealed last month that they’d made significant progress on that front, having bred woolly mice.

“The Colossal woolly mouse marks a watershed moment in our de-extinction mission,” CEO Ben Lamm said in a statement, per the official website. “By engineering multiple cold-tolerant traits from mammoth evolutionary pathways into a living model species, we’ve proven our ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create.”

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also praised the milestone, noting that the breakthrough has ushered in a “thrilling new era of scientific wonder.” However, Vincent Lynch, a biologist at the University at Buffalo – not involved in the research said per AP News, “All you can do now is make something look superficially like something else” without fully reviving extinct species.

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Following Romulus and Remus’ birth — “the first animals every resurrected from extinction,” Colossal welcomed a third dire wolf named Khaleesi in January 2025. These wolves have been extinct for around 13,000 years, per USA Today.

More de-extinction wishes and reactions pour in after Elon Musk’s tweet

Since Elon Musk’s tweet, X users have joined in to pitch their own wishes, with some even hoping for a real-life Jurassic Park revival. As the billionaire’s post gained traction online, a user even asked Grok for name for Musk’s pet woolly mammoth. The AI assistant named the yet-to-be-resurrected pet “Quark.” Another user generated an AI image of “Elon with his new woolly mammoth.”

More responses like “They gonna mess around and bring back dinosaurs.. Has no one seen Jurassic park?” and “Come on. Velociraptors are the only real option” followed in Musk’s comments section.