What extinct animal would you like to see return? (insect, look, birds)

[steiconi]

Unicorns and dragons.

[Forever Blue]

I don't mind bringing a few animals back that aren't vicious to or pesters mankind. So nothing bothersome, annoying, etc.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by pathrunner

.......Other: Pterodactyl, ..........

A flying predator with a wingspan of 35 feet. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm sure that the Hawaiians would love to see some of their tropical native birds returned to them. Although I mostly don't know what the birds were, I know they are all killed off thanks to European visitors and the invasive species they brought with them. Google says 95 species of birds were wiped out.

[pathrunner]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

A flying predator with a wingspan of 35 feet. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm sure that the Hawaiians would love to see some of their tropical native birds returned to them. Although I mostly don't know what the birds were, I know they are all killed off thanks to European visitors and the invasive species they brought with them. Google says 95 species of birds were wiped out.

I figure it's an exercise in fantasy as well as futility so it would be fun to see one - in the wilderness!

[blisterpeanuts]

Originally Posted by aquietpath

If scientists could recreate a Neanderthal being, it would be incredibly cruel to the created one. I hope this never happens.

Why??

Bring back a couple hundred, of both sexes, and you have a breeding population to begin their global takeover.

[marino760]

I think the question is much too broad. There needs to be a time element.

Last 100 years would be the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine.
Last 500 years would be the Moa giant bird
Last 1000 years would be the giant bird of Madagascar
Glacial period would be the giant sloth or saber tooth tiger

There are so very many it's really impossible to decide including the woolly rhino

[NDak15]

Originally Posted by SnazzyB

I would like to see the Carolina Parakeet make a comeback. The last one in captivity died in 1918. They were the only native parrot to North America, and there used to be flocks of millions. Farmers tended to hate them because they would eat certain crops.

But I think it'd be so cool to see glimpses of them flying around among the bluffs of the Mississippi River.

These would be so neat to see.

[Aredhel]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Although I mostly don't know what the birds were, I know they are all killed off thanks to European visitors and the invasive species they brought with them.

Actually the Native Hawaiians killed off many bird species shortly after their arrival. (And the Maori did the same in New Zealand.) Unlike us, though, they have the excuse that their ancestors didn't know they were doing it.

[marino760]

Originally Posted by Aredhel

Actually the Native Hawaiians killed off many bird species shortly after their arrival. (And the Maori did the same in New Zealand.) Unlike us, though, they have the excuse that their ancestors didn't know they were doing it.

I was going to say the same thing. Polynesians especially did a real number on wildlife wherever their boats took them.
One can only imagine the flora and fauna that existed on Easter Island before it was nearly totally decimated by the natives.
There was a really cool species of goose at one time in Hawaii the natives made extinct much before the Europeans ever set foot on those islands.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by tnff

Let's reverse that other thread and think about what we'd like to see back.

I'd like to see the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Passenger Pigeon, and Thylacine for starters. Perhaps also the Mammoth, sabretooth, and dire wolf. Though those last two would probably have to be limited to captivity since we'd be returning large predators to an environment that no longer suits them in it. Mammoths might be able to survive in small herds in the northern isolated parts of the world but even it would be hard pressed.


Would be really cool to see some of the large mammals that came after the dinosaurs but even if we could bring them back, there's no home for them except in a zoo.

I don't know what a Thylacine is. For me my list is:

1. Mammoth;
2. Ivory Bill Woodpecker;
3. Wolverine in upper Great Lakes and Adirondacks; and
4. Passenger pigeon.

On that note, I wonder if the extinction of the passenger pigeon resulted in part from diseases introduced by European pigeons.