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Postby Slembana » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:04 pm

If you could bring back an extinct animal, what would it be? A giant rodent from the Mediterranean? T-Rex? A huge shark?

I'd bring back Megalania, a giant Komodo dragon from Australia. I'd bring it back because it is a giant Komodo dragon, and I like Komodo dragons. I might also bring back some extinct animals from Europe that are now found only in Africa and Asia, such as hippos, hyenas, and lions. I'd also like to bring back the tarpan and the aurochs, and maybe some extinct subspecies of tigers and rhinos.
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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:05 pm

Thylacines. Best animal ever.

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Postby Tuthina » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:07 pm

The Neanderthals/any other species in the Homo genus, if just to see how different/similar we are.
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Postby Blazedtown » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:07 pm

A giant bear so I could raise it to guard my stash.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:12 pm

These massive bastards, the Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus. Almost 7ft high at the shoulder, with 12ft antlers, tip to tip. I maintain that they could be domesticated like horses, and used for the most awesome transport ever.


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Postby Genivaria » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:12 pm

Slembana wrote:If you could bring back an extinct animal, what would it be? A giant rodent from the Mediterranean? T-Rex? A huge shark?

I'd bring back Megalania, a giant Komodo dragon from Australia. I'd bring it back because it is a giant Komodo dragon, and I like Komodo dragons. I might also bring back some extinct animals from Europe that are now found only in Africa and Asia, such as hippos, hyenas, and lions. I'd also like to bring back the tarpan and the aurochs, and maybe some extinct subspecies of tigers and rhinos.

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Postby Onekawa-Nukanor » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:12 pm

Moa, Haast Eagle, Eyles Harrier, Huia.

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Postby Solsteim » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:12 pm

Tuthina wrote:The Neanderthals/any other species in the Homo genus, if just to see how different/similar we are.


Couldn't agree more, also it would put humanity into perspective, we aren't as unique as we think.
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Postby The New Velociraptor Empire » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:13 pm

T.rex, do I even need to say why?
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Postby Baiynistan » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:14 pm

If (when) tigers go extinct, I'd bring them back.
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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:14 pm

Genivaria wrote:
Slembana wrote:If you could bring back an extinct animal, what would it be? A giant rodent from the Mediterranean? T-Rex? A huge shark?

I'd bring back Megalania, a giant Komodo dragon from Australia. I'd bring it back because it is a giant Komodo dragon, and I like Komodo dragons. I might also bring back some extinct animals from Europe that are now found only in Africa and Asia, such as hippos, hyenas, and lions. I'd also like to bring back the tarpan and the aurochs, and maybe some extinct subspecies of tigers and rhinos.

NO! PLEASE NO!
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It's like he wants Australia to be more inhabitable than it already is.

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Postby Cetacea » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:16 pm

I want a pet microraptor and I've always wanted a Auroch burger and even Mammoth steaks I'd also love to eat Tyrannosaur but that one might be a bit too dangerous

Also the giant Haast Eagle, the Moa and Cnemiornis (giant goose) and the Diprotodon (giant wombat) so the Thylacines have something to eat...

and Neanderthals aren't extinct, they now sit in the European Parliment
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Postby Clement XV » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:18 pm

You won't suspect what I'd bring back...

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Postby Genivaria » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:20 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:
Genivaria wrote:NO! PLEASE NO!
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It's like he wants Australia to be more inhabitable than it already is.

UN-inhabitable you mean.
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Postby OMGeverynameistaken » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:20 pm

The Gigantraptor, of course.
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Postby Disserbia » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:20 pm

Would it have to be able to survive in this climate or can we go for anything?
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Postby Nailed to the Perch » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:21 pm

Were this a real option, I'd do serious investigation into what would have the most positive effects if reintroduced to its ecosystem, and choose accordingly.

Since it's a silly hypothetical question on a webforum, I'll just go with the dodo, solely so I could keep one as a pet and name it Pickwick.
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Postby Risottia » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:23 pm

Red dragons.

They were quite tasty.
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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:24 pm

Genivaria wrote:
Ceannairceach wrote:It's like he wants Australia to be more inhabitable than it already is.

UN-inhabitable you mean.

Yes, that.

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Postby Cetacea » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:24 pm

Genivaria wrote:UN-inhabitable you mean.


what only inhabitable by the UN?
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Postby Minoriteeburg » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:26 pm

Megalodon.

I don't like going in the water anyway.
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Postby AETEN II » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:27 pm

Realistically? Mammoths. Completely possible, and would make for extremely useful 'cattle', not to mention they'd be great beasts of burden.

Magically? So many to choose from.
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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:28 pm

Minoriteeburg wrote:Megalodon.

I don't like going in the water anyway.

Megalodon's that are especially attracted to spray-on tan. Release them in Jersey. *nod*

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