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Reviving extinct species.

Yea they could put them all on an island to try it out and make sure it doesn't disrupt nature too much. Maybe they could have people pay to come see them as a tourist attraction when suddenly they realize they accidentally cloned billions of copies of the smartest, most sentient carrier pigeon and they DO NOT LIKE captivity and they figure out a way to bust out of their cages and start driving all the tourists from the island.

Maybe we shouldn't... dunno 😛
 
Cool. I wonder if they can survive in the Wild though. Other Species will have taken over those niches by now.
 
They could name it Passenger Pigeon Park III. Passenger Pigeon Park I & Passenger Pigeon Park II were huge failures, broken electrical fences and shit everywhere. Should be great.
 
sandorski said:
Cool. I wonder if they can survive in the Wild though. Other Species will have taken over those niches by now.
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Thats just it, no niche in the wild so zoos with extinct animals.

The spotted owl that was "protected" by killing the wood industry in the NW is now being wiped out by another specie of more aggressive border owls, so the "naturalists" will be killing border owls by the thousands to keep them out of the area.
 
Schmide said:
Welcome back Mammoth, sorry we melted your home.
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Actually not newest science suggest that is was a change in vegetation that lead to their demise. The plants species surviving contained to little protein for the mammoth to survive.
 
I just want them to identify a larger version of an extinct chicken so that my chicken breast meal at KFC gets bigger for the same price.
 
OverVolt said:
Yea they could put them all on an island to try it out and make sure it doesn't disrupt nature too much. Maybe they could have people pay to come see them as a tourist attraction when suddenly they realize they accidentally cloned billions of copies of the smartest, most sentient carrier pigeon and they DO NOT LIKE captivity and they figure out a way to bust out of their cages and start driving all the tourists from the island.
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Come on, the chances of that are no more than 1 out of 3. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
 
Interesting, but using genetic material to 'infuse' living cells, so the end result is a non-extinct pigeon/carrier pigeon is isn't exactly bringing a species back to life, but creating a hybrid.

I found a talk on the TED series to be far better. This guy took a chicken, and by x-raying eggs as the embryo developed, they could see little arms (like on a dinosaur) that were absorbed into the normal chicken shape before birth (and a long dinosaur looking tail too).

The idea isn't to splice genes into a chicken, but to change the genes of a normal chicken so those arms and that tail is NOT absorbed, ending in a dinosaur looking chicken. Hasn't been done yet; still in research, but far more interesting to de-evolve a species into an extinct relative, instead of creating a hybrid.
 
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