The dinosaur cloning program was a huge success while it lasted. The feathered ancients were wildly popular, but the costs to clone and then to house and feed the animals was too great.
The closure left the animals in limbo. The animals couldn’t be destroyed, but there was no space for them in even the most advanced zoos.
Finally, they found spots to release them into the wild.
Critics claimed that reintroducing megafauna after millions of years would destroy the ecosystem, but things quickly stabilized. The mammals weren’t about to concede their place at the top of the food chain.

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