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14 extinct animals that could be resurrected: Fit to be cloned
14 extinct animals that could be resurrected
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Steven Wells
Apr 02 2013 at 3:58 PM
Humans have cloned an extinct species, an ibex, it died shortly after being born due to breathing difficulties, but if this can be done with one species, and technology has advanced hundreds of times in the last 50 years, who is to say we wont make the needed advances to make this sci fi dream into a reality.
Guest
Mar 05 2013 at 3:43 PM
im very sad that they cannot create dinosaurs, i wish that the DNA from dinosaurs are still there so people can sucessfully create them.
Guest
Feb 11 2013 at 11:00 AM
How about scientists FINISH trying to clone a mammoth, and THEN move on to something else?
Khalel
Jan 29 2013 at 5:08 PM
I wish them good luck on resurrecting these species. What other species can you bring back?
I'm not illetirate, im anyonoms
Oct 28 2012 at 8:19 PM
Yeah sure guys, lets bring back dogs, oh wait i mean crabs. No i mean apples, wait what about that bloke that died lets clone him yah.... Lets do it!!!! Whooo yeah Potato
idk
Oct 17 2012 at 6:54 AM
well some animals do get extinct it is possible to see an extinct animal or see a similar one ok?
you
Oct 12 2012 at 1:12 AM
it could really jack up the world if you brough back extinct animals it would take away humandity and nature would not like that the earthed changed so the extinct animal .... something will go wrong watch
Guest
Nov 26 2012 at 3:02 PM
True, but in many cases it is because us humans did something stupid like introducing animals into an ecosystem that should not be there. This article is a great example of that:
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0917-hance-guam-spiders.html
They're currently having an "arachnopocalypse" over in Guam because of the introduction of brown tree snakes into the environment. It tends to be cases like these that cause the extinction of a species, and not natural selection.
is it possible
Oct 12 2012 at 1:07 AM
it is possible to see a extinct animal right beacaus ethey didnt search ever inch of the world just because it not in the area they expect it doest mean thry could adpt to another area
hey
Oct 12 2012 at 1:17 AM
it does mean they can probaly adapt to an area but not for long if people are jackin up the world with there pollution....... want to no natures secret NATURAL
hey
Oct 12 2012 at 1:05 AM
Are animals really extict if they say they are?How did extinct animals get there names?For all we now it could be a lie i swear a saw a irish elk but there extinct so how is that possible it was huge and looked exaclly like the picture a size it was huge
Peter L.
Oct 06 2012 at 3:09 PM
While it's possible to resurrect an extinct animal, it would be only a clone. The extinct animals' specie wouldn't be able to brought back. There wouldn't another of its kind to teach and nurture the cloned animal. Extinct species are really extinct, and there's nothing including cloning would ever bring them back.
mrs.lacy.smith
May 06 2012 at 4:41 AM
But have we learned anything? Less than 20 years ago, we fought to reintroduce the wolves to Yellowstone and Idaho. The wolves were quickly de-listed and can thus be hunted now. They will not be considered endangered and re-listed unless their numbers reach below 100. People can't wait to hunt and kill animals they currently are not able to kill...even here in Indiana there has been talk of the bear population returning, cougars as well, and the hunters are salivating for a chance to shoot them
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already. Why bother restoring what we cannot protect forever?
Randy D
Jun 20 2012 at 4:47 AM
Hunting is the sole means to keep the populations in check. Otherwise, the numbers get out of balance and other species has to pay the ultimate price for it. No animal that is currently endangered is going to be reclassified and allowed to go extinct. The scientist keep tabs on the populations very closely, they know what they are doing.
You bring up wolves, which is interesting. Now they are destroying herds of cattle, which aren't just there for recreation, but are the means of income
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for a huge amount of people. Wolves slaughter far too many animals.
I suggest you get educated on these subjects a little better, so you can be more prepared in the future and you won't look so bad.
john
Jul 13 2012 at 4:57 PM
'Herds of animals'? I've worked with ranchers...I've worked with enviro groups....the simple fact is that wolves are taking 1 here and 1 there, not 'herds'. The ranchers are then compensated by both the feds and a triad of enviro groups. There is a hassle, but no net $$ loss to ranchers due to wolf predation.
Michael Ferdik
May 05 2012 at 3:43 PM
Different Age - Different Times - We have enough to do trying to cope with what we got in the way of the species of these days - Let them rest in peace as they have had their day - and is a new day now - and lets go forward-
lucien
May 05 2012 at 11:58 AM
i understand cloning animals that died out in recent time but a T-rex? nature deemed that the T-rez wasn't fit to survive so we should leave in the past.
Guest
Sep 29 2012 at 5:12 AM
You uh, do realize that the reason they became extinct is due to an asteroid collision, and has nothing to do with their ability to survive.
USN
Oct 30 2012 at 10:26 PM
uh, you do relize that a meteor may not have been what happened it could have beenany or the following. Disease, Disease has also been proposed as the killer of the dinosaurs. As the Cretaceous period went on, more and more land bridges started to appear on the earth. The oceans started to dry up and the dinosaurs were able to walk across the land that was there. As the dinosaurs searched for food they would walk across these new land bridges and find relatives of theirs from when the lands of the
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world were one. But land bridges brought more than dinosaurs looking for food into the new land. They brought all of the diseases that those dinosaurs had inside of them. The diseases did not hurt those dinosaurs because they were immune to them, but to the other dinosaurs they could be fatal and the other way around. In most cases disease in a species is not fatal and is a positive thing because it will wipe out the weak so only the strong survive to pass their genes on to the next generation, but in the dinosaurs case it might not have been that way. Or Could numerous volcanic eruptions have caused such mass destruction? Possibly. When volcanos erupt, they send huge clouds of dust, sulfuric acid, and poisonous gases into the air making the air almost impossible to breath. The dust and ash in the atmosphere would also change the climate and sunlight levels. On top of that, the ground would be covered with layers and layers of molten rock. The dinosaurs would never have survived such a hostile, poisoned environment! Or maby even climate change The climate of the Cretaceous period was tropical. Scientists know this because nearly one half of the plants in this time were tropical plants. Many scientists believe that at the end of the Cretaceous period the temperature dropped. If this drop in temperature is correct, many of the plants that the plant eating dinosaurs ate would die and thus many of the plant eaters would die as well. If the plant eaters died there would be nothing for the meat eaters to eat and they would eventually die out also. Plankton also seemed to decrease in number during the Tertiary period which could explain the death of the marine dinosaurs that fed on them. This popular theory just possibly could have caused the dinosaurs demise. Or the asteroid impact, Asteroids very seldom pass through the earth's atmosphere, but when they do they cause mass destruction. One of the most common extinction theories is that an asteroid 4-9 miles (10 km) wide struck the earth on the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Gulf of Mexico dealing the dinosaurs a fatal blow. Upon striking, the comet would have sent dust and steam into the atmosphere and caused huge forest fires, tidal waves, severe storms, and eliminated all sunlight. It would be six months before sunlight would reach the ground after such a blow. The dinosaurs, even in their prime, stood no chance without sunlight and plant life. All of those are possible reasons of the death of the dinosaurs but we dont know what happened so all we have are a bunch or theories.
mountaincrabz
May 04 2012 at 1:55 PM
Let's do this! We (man) has led to more extinctions than any other event.
Fit to be cloned
Can lost species ever become un-extinct? In the 1993 film "Jurassic Park," dinosaurs are cloned back to life after their DNA is discovered still intact within the bellies of ancient mosquitoes preserved in amber. While the science of cloning is still in its infancy, many scientists now believe it's only a matter of time before extinct animals again walk the Earth.
To successfully clone an extinct animal, scientists need to find animal DNA that is almost entirely intact, so some species will make better candidates for resurrection than others. For instance, recently extinct animals that have been preserved in museums make good candidates, as do ancient animals that were preserved in permafrost during the last ice age.
Because of the sheer amount of time that has passed, dinosaurs make unlikely candidates. A real-life Jurassic Park is probably best reserved for the imagination, but a real-life Pleistocene Park? Well, that's another story. Here's our list of 14 extinct animals that could be resurrected, thanks to cloning. (Text: Bryan Nelson)
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