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Should they clone extinct animals?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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No.
Maybe there's a reason that these animals are extinct: climate, food supply, unique diseases, etc, who knows? Maybe we've got enough problems without trying to dodge 1000-acre dinosaurs.
Seems like maybe these "scientists" might have more beneficial things to do instead of trying to climb Mt. Everest just to see if they can.
Maybe there's a reason that these animals are extinct: climate, food supply, unique diseases, etc, who knows? Maybe we've got enough problems without trying to dodge 1000-acre dinosaurs.
Seems like maybe these "scientists" might have more beneficial things to do instead of trying to climb Mt. Everest just to see if they can.
Even if they did manage to bring them back, I don't believe the environment or the ecosystem would support them for very long.
I never heard that they were trying for dinosaurs. Most of the species I have heard about were more recent, like mammoths, where we actually have DNA and fairly intact specimens. Some, like the dodo, ones we ourselves did in. DNA degenerates badly over time and even among human species, we only have good genomes for Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ourselves. Nothing earlier.
Yeah theyve been talking about it for a while now
Could we build a real-life Jurassic Park?
Advances in science could make it possible to bring the dinosaurs back to life.
The mammoth is just the first step
That's all fairly speculative, though. The mammoth is much more likely given we do actually have the mammoth genome courtesy of the frozen mammoths from the permafrost in Siberia. And there's other animals from the same time period where we have similar sources of material. So I am not expecting to see dinos walking around any time soon, but maybe mammoths.Yeah theyve been talking about it for a while now
Could we build a real-life Jurassic Park?
Advances in science could make it possible to bring the dinosaurs back to life.www.livescience.com
The mammoth is just the first step
However, my take on the ethics of it remains what I said above. We are still sending species into extinction, both directly through hunting and habitat destruction and indirectly though the changes we are making to the climate. Our priority needs to be to stop that, not bringing back species.
One example:
Even if the technology were perfected to clone a dinosaur. The earth is a lot different now then it was millions of years ago. They wouldn't survive.
Could a dinosaur survive in today’s climate conditions?
www.sciencefocus.com
