What extinct species would you bring back?

[Britannia I]

Dodo birds apparently they taste nice

[Immoren]

utahraptor

[Alenaness]

Baiji River Dolphin

[Alenaness]

Baiji River Dolphin

[GrandKirche]

St John's Water Dog.

Or Dodo. They're finger licking extinct!

[Xsyne]

No. The DNA samples we have are far too degraded.

Science will prevail, anyway. It always does. Especially the mad sort.

Science can do many things. Recreating parts of a genome that do not exist anywhere on the planet is not one of them.

[Screensaver]

The genuinely good and effective marine.

[Ifreann]

Science will prevail, anyway. It always does. Especially the mad sort.

Science can do many things. Recreate parts of a genome that do not exist anywhere on the planet is not one of them.

Life finds a way[/jeffgoldblum]

[Nazis in Space]

Science can do many things. Recreate parts of a genome that do not exist anywhere on the planet is not one of them.

Life finds a way[/jeffgoldblum]

Clever girl~

[Democratic Peoples Republic of Me]

All of the ones that humanity played a direct role opinion killing off.

[Nailed to the Perch]

Baiji River Dolphin

Aw, damn, is it officially extinct now? I didn't hear. They were cute.

(Also, I recommend making some serious changes to Chinese infrastructure before bringing it back, or finding someplace other than the Yangtze for it to live, because putting it back in an area which had become pretty much a hellscape for it just so it can go extinct all over again seems rather cruel.)

[Veceria]

The Dodo. Because cute bird.

[Nazis in Space]

They never went extinct on account of never actually existing, but I totally want Yoshis to roam our forests.

[Sociobiology]

Science will prevail, anyway. It always does. Especially the mad sort.

Science can do many things. Recreating parts of a genome that do not exist anywhere on the planet is not one of them.

actually we can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762

And me I'd bring back T-rex but only if I can release a few at the ICR, and maybe the Vatican and Mecca.

[Xsyne]

Science can do many things. Recreating parts of a genome that do not exist anywhere on the planet is not one of them.

actually we can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762

And me I'd bring back T-rex but only if I can release a few at the ICR, and maybe the Vatican and Mecca.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the article severely, that's not recreating a genome. That's creating a new genome. Pretty big difference.

[Sociobiology]

actually we can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762

And me I'd bring back T-rex but only if I can release a few at the ICR, and maybe the Vatican and Mecca.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the article severely, that's not recreating a genome. That's creating a new genome. Pretty big difference.

we're doing that to it is harder. we got chickens to grow teeth, its all down hill from there,

[Kvatchdom]

Real Finnish people.

[Xsyne]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the article severely, that's not recreating a genome. That's creating a new genome. Pretty big difference.

we're doing that to it is harder. we got chickens to grow teeth, its all down hill from there,

The genes for teeth were still there, they just aren't normally expressed. The problem with cloning a thylacine is that, after over one hundred years of sitting around, quite often preserved in a manner not conducive to DNA preservation (on account of no one knowing about DNA), the DNA in all the specimens has degraded to the point that it's entirely possible that sections of the genome might be genuinely gone. As in, not present in any specimen. Granted, there's quite a few specimens, and not all have had what's left of the genome sequenced, so maybe, eventually, we could piece it together.

Of course, since Murphy's a dick, that's probably when we'll find out that something we thought was thylacine DNA was actually a contaminant.

I really need to read up on genes and DNA and stuff because I honestly don't know if I'm even using the right words.

[Xathranaar]

Real Finnish people.

True Scotsmen.

[Faolinn]

Baiji River Dolphin

Forgot about these.They would still have a fair place in the ecosystem as it is.I would have no problem with bringing them back.

[Xathranaar]

Baiji River Dolphin

Forgot about these.They would still have a fair place in the ecosystem as it is.I would have no problem with bringing them back.

Only if the conditions which drove them to extinction were removed. As it stands their existence was torture that I would not wish on anyone. I'll let Douglas Adams, explain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2jsD7gy_E

[The Emerald Legion]

Thylacines. Best animal ever.

Those might not be extinct. Sightings have still been reported!

You mean like the sightings of brachiosaurs in africa?

In any case, I'd have to do some research and come up with a creature that would screw over the biosphere massively by it's reintroduction.

[Nailed to the Perch]

Forgot about these.They would still have a fair place in the ecosystem as it is.I would have no problem with bringing them back.

Only if the conditions which drove them to extinction were removed. As it stands their existence was torture that I would not wish on anyone. I'll let Douglas Adams, explain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2jsD7gy_E

Incidentally, since Adams and the baiji river dolphin have been brought up, I'll take this opportunity to plug the book he wrote about the experience he discusses in that link, Last Chance to See. It is brilliant, hilarious, sad, educational, and generally well, well worth reading.

[Coccygia]

Smallpox.

[Ethel mermania]

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