“The View” star addressed scientists attempting to resurrect the extinct dire wolf, woolly mammoths, and the dodo bird. “They can tear off your face,” Sunny Hostin said.

Whoopi Goldberg on ‘The View’ ; an illustration of a dodo bird.Credit: ABC; Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty

Whoopi Goldberg stands against the scientific resurrection of the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, and the dire wolf.
Goldberg does, however, like the thought of Tasmanian tigers once again roaming the planet.
“They can tear off your face,” Sunny Hostin told her cohosts about the temperament of dire wolves after the canines were recently reverse-extinct by scientists.

What exactly did the long-extinct, ridiculously adorable dodo bird species do to Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg?

History may never know, but the actress, who was born roughly 293 years after the last reported sighting of the feathered creature before its 17th-century extinction, still issued a stern decree to the world’s scientists from her post on The View: Do not, under any circumstances, resurrect these little guys!

The 69-year-old actress stared the talk show’s camera down Tuesday morning, as she processed in real-time news that scientists had replicated genetic elements of the long-extinct dire wolf, and might soon set their sights on bringing back other extinct animals in the future.

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“Twelve thousand years after being wiped off the planet, the dire wolf is howling again,” Goldberg said after The View returned from a commercial break, introducing a Hot Topics discussion about Colossal Biosciences recently engineering wolves to have genetic similarities to the extinct animal.

Goldberg went on to highlight what the company is calling “the world’s first successfully de-extinct animal,” she said, before informing the audience, “They say they’ve got their eye on resurrecting the woolly mammoth. Why? And the dodo bird. Why!?”

She did, however, enjoy the prospect of seeing a Tasmanian tiger in the wild once again: “I like that,” she said with a smile, before turning to her cohosts to ask, “Now, are you on board with this, or did the movie Jurassic Park tell you what was happening and you’re wondering why the hell are we doing this?”

‘The View’ cohosts discuss scientists resurrecting extinct species.ABC

Ana Navarro turned the conversation back to politics, quipping, “I wish they’d resurrect the extinct principled Republican in Congress,” while panelist Sunny Hostin echoed Goldberg’s fears.

“I don’t like it. It’s giving Jurassic Park for me. That didn’t end well. The dinosaurs came back and ate the people,” Hostin said, while Alyssa Farah Griffin praised the newly resurrected dire wolves’ beauty.

Hostin, however, reminded her: “They can tear off your face.” Again, seconds later, she stressed that the wolves can “take your face off.”

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Finally, an exasperated Goldberg didn’t even attempt an artful transition to a new topic, as she abruptly shifted the table’s focus to her own recent honor, as she was named by New York magazine as one of the all-time great Broadway legends.