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I read something yesterday that they are very close to cloning the mammoth and thylacine, perhaps later this decade for the mammoth and thylacine shortly after.
When we think of extinct animals it seems the most of folks flash straight to the fossil record or critters that vanished within the last few centuries. I.E. the Dodo. It's my understanding that myriad species of critters go extinct everyday. But nobody is wailing in lamentation for ...ohhhh...the frilly willy paramecieum or some such form of life. LOL where's our critter nerds? The ones that look at life through a microscope.
As I have been led to understand microbes insects and other lower forms of life come and go like the wind. Birds might have been in there too. It is the way of things. Adapt or die. This is as it should be ...yes? My personal critter I would love to see in the wild...sabre tooth cats. Pleistocene CA is a LONG ways off though.
When we think of extinct animals it seems the most of folks flash straight to the fossil record or critters that vanished within the last few centuries. I.E. the Dodo. It's my understanding that myriad species of critters go extinct everyday. But nobody is wailing in lamentation for ...ohhhh...the frilly willy paramecieum or some such form of life. LOL where's our critter nerds? The ones that look at life through a microscope.
As I have been led to understand microbes insects and other lower forms of life come and go like the wind. Birds might have been in there too. It is the way of things. Adapt or die. This is as it should be ...yes? My personal critter I would love to see in the wild...sabre tooth cats. Pleistocene CA is a LONG ways off though.
The only problem with reviving the dodo is that all those sayings like "It went the way of the dodo bird" will have to be revised or discarded.
"Like the dodo, this company is no longer viable in the market." Etc.
Many books will need to be revised as well.
Also, should we manage to revive the Neanderthals and they turn out to be pretty smart, as well they might be, given their brains were larger than ours, we'll need to excise "neanderthal" as an insult or put-down. It would be racist, quite literally.
Pterodactyl / pteranodon. I saw one flying around at the end of that 80's (?) War Games movie, and it was rather nice to see.
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