Extinct Species Brought Back to Life...for 7 minutes

[Mar77]

The Pyrenean ibex, which has been extinct since 2000, was brought back to life...at least for a time. Unfortunately, the animal had lung defects which allowed it only to live for seven minutes.




Despite this, it is a extraordinary milestone. And it begs the question: Should cloning be used to bring back extinct species? Do you think it should be used on endangered species to help their populations in the future? Discuss.

[Space Wolves]

Obviously, but only certain species that we know wont upset or otherwise fubar the way of things in nature. Ressurect some nice passive animals that won't screw the balance sure, anything else..just no..unless we find some really good reason to do so...


Does anyone know a link to a website that has all the extinct species to date...


No i don't mean dinos..you know what i mean..

[Mar77]

Yea, more aggressive animals we should leave alone. Although...something like a woolly mammoth (which was more aggressive than this ibex) might be an interesting revival...something which I have heard scientists might be able to do.


Wikipedia has a list of extinct species, organized in different ways.

[KoS]

Wikipedia has a list of extinct species, organized in different ways.

I followed that link to their list of dinosaurs.

This one made me lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachenosaurus

The name Aachenosaurus refers to two fossilized fragments of material that were originally thought to be jaw fragments from a duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur). However, the fossils turned out to be petrified wood, to the great embarrassment of the discoverer.

Aachenosaurus was found and named by the scientist (and abbé) Gerard Smets, on October 31, 1888, who named the type species Aachenosaurus multidens. Based on these fragments he determined that the specimen was a hadrosaur reaching an estimated 4 to 5 meters in length which might have had dermal spines.[1] He defended this conclusion, citing that the fossils had been examined visually with the naked eye, magnifying lenses and with the microscope. However, his error was soon demonstrated by Louis Dollo. Smets at first tried to defend his original identification but was again proven wrong by a neutral commission and withdrew from science completely from pure embarrassment.

[Gaidin]

Yea, more aggressive animals we should leave alone. Although...something like a woolly mammoth (which was more aggressive than this ibex) might be an interesting revival...something which I have heard scientists might be able to do.


Wikipedia has a list of extinct species, organized in different ways.

This ain't the environment for anything thats been extinct since before the industrial revolution.

[bleach]

Ah, this will be useful in the future after we drive some of the world's cooler species extinct.

Don't Bother Saving The Whales, we backed up their 'files'.

[D.B. Cooper]

Interesting. We aren't God, yet.

[★Bandiera Rossa☭]

Interesting. We aren't God, yet.

Yet is the correct word.

[cupoftea]

Awesome, I've always wanted my own Allosaurus to bring me to school ^^.

And a private army of Utahraptors wouldn't be bad either

[Richard]

Progress, but I'll probably wait until someone does a triceratops before I spend money on seeing anything.

[dogukan]

I would die to see a T-Rex moving around for 7 minutes...perhaps if he eats me I'd reach nirvana.

[Rapax]

Recently extinct or endangered maybe, but everything else only really has a place in the zoo, as you can't just reintroduce a long extinct species into an existing ecosystem without screwing something up.
Imagine Smilodons introduced into Africa...

[Last Roman]

Recently extinct or endangered maybe, but everything else only really has a place in the zoo, as you can't just reintroduce a long extinct species into an existing ecosystem without screwing something up.
Imagine Smilodons introduced into Africa...

poppy cock! I want a pet dodo

[Captain Jin]

I'm trying to imagine that but I don't know what a Smilodon is.

Let's teach animals how to be humans and play with their DNA so we have hyena men.....

[SepulchreUK]

I'm trying to imagine that but I don't know what a Smilodon is.

Let's teach animals how to be humans and play with their DNA so we have hyena men.....

A bloody big cat.

[MaximiIian]

If they're animals that died naturally or otherwise failed to adapt to changing situations (including human habitation)...then, no. They had their shot.

But animals that we knowingly over-hunted to extinction, e.g. New Zealand megafauna, the dodo, and mastodons...sure. Bring 'em back. We made the mistake of killing them off, we should bring 'em back for a second chance.

[zachattack]

I did a paper on this.

Is it a good idea?

Think about it:

1) They went extinct for a reason
2) They will probably go extinct again
3) IT COULD disrupt ecosystems that have patched this extinct species out of themselves

Instead of trying to bring back old, extinct species, we should look into why they went extinct in the first place.
Was it human intervention? Loss of habitat b/c deforestation etc? Over-hunting by humans?
If so, we should first focus on stopping the REASONS before trying to bring them back.
Or, was it because they were not good survivalists and other animals simply ate them all, naturally?
Should we bring back such an inadept animal?

My opinion:
Cloning endangered/extinct species could be a viable short term solution to places where the ecosystem NEEDS that animal in the FUTURE, but if they have ALREADY gone extinct and our ecosystems are doing fine without them, why reintroduce them?
Rather, we should focus on limiting deforestation and habitat destruction, stop overhunting/fishing, and save what we have left.

[ColdFire]

I did a paper on this.

Is it a good idea?

Think about it:

1) They went extinct for a reason
2) They will probably go extinct again
3) IT COULD disrupt ecosystems that have patched this extinct species out of themselves

Instead of trying to bring back old, extinct species, we should look into why they went extinct in the first place.
Was it human intervention? Loss of habitat b/c deforestation etc? Over-hunting by humans?
If so, we should first focus on stopping the REASONS before trying to bring them back.
Or, was it because they were not good survivalists and other animals simply ate them all, naturally?
Should we bring back such an inadept animal?

My opinion:
Cloning endangered/extinct species could be a viable short term solution to places where the ecosystem NEEDS that animal in the FUTURE, but if they have ALREADY gone extinct and our ecosystems are doing fine without them, why reintroduce them?
Rather, we should focus on limiting deforestation and habitat destruction, stop overhunting/fishing, and save what we have left.

You sum up my views some well, that it would be pointless to reiterate them.

[gambit]

Disrupting the ecosystem is a pretty stupid thing to do

But on the other hand...

It could be fun

And I want a jurassic park dammit!

[Exarch]

The Pyrenean ibex, which has been extinct since 2000, was brought back to life...at least for a time. Unfortunately, the animal had lung defects which allowed it only to live for seven minutes.




Despite this, it is a extraordinary milestone. And it begs the question: Should cloning be used to bring back extinct species? Do you think it should be used on endangered species to help their populations in the future? Discuss.

yeah

i've always wanted to know how dodo tastes like