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Wooly Mammoth making a comeback?
Topic Started: Jan 18 2011, 10:53 PM (412 Views)
Gauntlet101010
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/researchers-aim-r...002516-489.html

Sounds interesting to me. It'd be nice if we could bring back a lot of the species we've made extinct in a similar way. Assuming this works anyway.
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It's cool, but is it actually a good idea?
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Extinct species should stay extinct. If a species of the past were to escape into the wild who knows what it would do to the local ecosystems. Though it would be interesting to see what it would be fascinating to see just exactly what these creatures were like when they were alive, and i cant deny that that prospect excites the dinosaur lover in me.(And overall paleozoology nerd. Man, it'd be so kick ass to see a real live megaladapis(A species of giant lemur that went extinct do to deforestation)) Whilst my logical side has to bring it back to earth and tell it how that would be a terrible idea.
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A lot of extinct species are extinct due to man hunting them down. And recently extinct at that. I don't think you can draw such a hard and fast line as "extinct should stay extinct".

Moreover, the article states that there's just not enough left of the dinos to bring them back at all. So dinosaurs are a moot point.
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^Then colour me uninterested. =P
And you do make a valid point, but how would they draw the line? These things can often go down a slippery slope.
Like ok, if something went extinct relatively recently and purely because of man's interventions then that may be ok. But bringing something back that went extinct long ago because of it being unable to survive through the changes in its environment would be bad.

And i dunno.. the concept of cloning just always felt uncomfortable to me. I'm not particularly religious or anything but it just doesn't seem right for people to play god, y'know?
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Well ... as a religious guy I see it less like playing God and more like setting the things back to the way He made 'em.

I mean, human cloning is a scary sort of thing. But animals are not humans. And if we can restore species we've wiped off the face of the planet, well ...

And, let's face facts. The #1 killer of species is man.

And the article mentions that the mammoth might very well have been killed off by early man.
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Of course, you know it won't be a Mammoth they'll be cloning, so much as a hairy elephant, right? Years ago, something similar was done with the quagga, which went extinct in the late 1800's. The "quagga" they cloned was really just a zebra colored like one. Which is still pretty neat, mind you, and I'm not doubting them (I'd LOVE to see a living "Mammoth"), but I'm just saying~

Edit: Just to give you an idea,
This is what a quagga looks like. This is what they artifically bred.
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