Bringing back the dodo

[Shaul]

A Texas company is working on bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. It also intends to bring back the wooly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

Dallas ‘de-extinction’ firm announces plans to bring back the dodo bird

 

[Valjean]

OK. Where will it house these revenants?

 

[Debater Slayer]

Even if they succeed, it sounds potentially dangerous to return long-extinct species to the wild into an ecosystem that has evolved to accommodate their absence.

Preserving extant species—many of which are endangered—and their habitats seems to me a much more useful pursuit.

 

[Debater Slayer]

OK. Where will it house these revenants?

They want to reintroduce them into the wild:

The company also has plans to bring back the wooly mammoth and a fox-like predatory marsupial, the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. If successful, the specimens will be reintroduced into the wild and returned fully to the ecosystem.

 

[Soandso]

If this became a reality, it would be so cool. I know there've been active efforts to recreate the aurochs through breeding certain strains of bovinae. I'd love to see them bypass those methods and utilize this one if it turns out that it works. Can you imagine if they were able to bring back saber tooth tigers, hell boars, or terror birds too? Not saying they should, but damn that would be awesome

 

[Estro Felino]

That would be a great accomplishment for world biology.

 

[Twilight Hue]

A Texas company is working on bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. It also intends to bring back the wooly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

Dallas ‘de-extinction’ firm announces plans to bring back the dodo bird

I'll get excited when they bring back t Rex and the raptors.

Or should I be terrified?

Anyways , what happened to bring back the woolly mammoth?

 

[Twilight Hue]

If this became a reality, it would be so cool. I know there've been active efforts to recreate the aurochs through breeding certain strains of bovinae. I'd love to see them bypass those methods and utilize this one if it turns out that it works. Can you imagine if they were able to bring back saber tooth tigers, hell boars, or terror birds too? Not saying they should, but damn that would be awesome

It makes me wonder if reverse engineering is biologically feasible?

 

[ChristineM]

Jurassic park comes to mind

 

[Secret Chief]

There's a much wider issue to focus on...

- Wild mammals have declined by 85% since the rise of humans, but there is a possible future where they flourish

 

[Nakosis]

A Texas company is working on bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. It also intends to bring back the wooly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

Dallas ‘de-extinction’ firm announces plans to bring back the dodo bird

I suspect if someone can do it, eventually someone will. Whatever comes after that, we'll have to deal with.

 

[The Hammer]

If this became a reality, it would be so cool. I know there've been active efforts to recreate the aurochs through breeding certain strains of bovinae. I'd love to see them bypass those methods and utilize this one if it turns out that it works. Can you imagine if they were able to bring back saber tooth tigers, hell boars, or terror birds too? Not saying they should, but damn that would be awesome

I prefer the slower methods of returning the aurochs than the genetic manipulation they seem to want to do here.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I'll get excited when they bring back t Rex and the raptors.

Or should I be terrified?

Anyways , what happened to bring back the woolly mammoth?

For dinosaurs, that apparently is impossible, given the amount of time since they disappeared - too much damage to the DNA. And the woolly mammoth project will take at least 100 years even if this is possible. According to a radio programme yesterday - including a scientist involved in this latter project.

PS This issue was discussed on the programme below, for all those who can access BBC iPlayer:

The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry - Series 21 - The Resurrection Quest - BBC Sounds

 

[Shaul]

I sure hope they don't get things mixed up. The prospect of a wooly mammoth-sized dodo with Tasmanian tiger like teeth doesn't sound good.

 

[The Hammer]

I sure hope they don't get things mixed up. The prospect of a wooly mammoth-sized dodo with Tasmanian tiger like teeth doesn't sound good.

Now that is some fantasy nightmare fuel bahaha

 

[Revoltingest]

Even if they succeed, it sounds potentially dangerous to return long-extinct species to the wild into an ecosystem that has evolved to accommodate their absence.

Preserving extant species—many of which are endangered—and their habitats seems to me a much more useful pursuit.

The dodo, Tasmanian tiger, & mammoths haven't
been extinct all that long from an evolutionary
time frame. And I eagerly await Dodo McNuggets.

 

[metis]

A Texas company is working on bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. It also intends to bring back the wooly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

Dallas ‘de-extinction’ firm announces plans to bring back the dodo bird

But can they bring back sane Republicans?

 

[Shaul]

But can they bring back sane Republicans?

"Sane Republican" is a pleonasm.

 

[sun rise]

A Texas company is working on bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. It also intends to bring back the wooly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

Dallas ‘de-extinction’ firm announces plans to bring back the dodo bird

Jurassic Park here we go.

 

[Twilight Hue]

But can they bring back sane Republicans?

Throw in non Marxist socialist minded democrats into the mix and you have a deal.