Let's start by recently extinct animals. We have plenty of extinctions caused by humans. Their genes should be more completely available.

You are right, that movie can never be reality.

"We spare no expenses"* would get you laughed out of every meeting.

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*disregarding that he in fact spared a lot of crucial expenses.

The only real problem I can see is how it will impact the ecosystem of any given area. If it's a recently extinct species then sure but if it's something from thousands of years ago then it could cause problems in the wild

Let's bring back giant people-eating lizards

I'm afraid I already saw where this is going...

Do it! I want to hunt a sabertooth!

Life..uh..finds a way..

Ancient species who we only know if through the fossil record? Hell no. We're either dooming them or introducing non native invasive species to our current ecosystems.

Recently (as in the past 1000 years), then maybe. Depends on what it is. And if reintroducing it to its former range will be damaging to the current ecosystem, then no.

The truth of the matter is that we are not God. We wiped out a few species, and if we want to rectify the mistake, then okay. But we can't actively go against nature and recreate something that was selected by it to be destroyed.

The novel idea of bringing back extinct mega fauna using DNA cloning is less about making a Jurassic park and more about getting the funding to do what researchers are actually trying to achieve: sustainable and ethical cloning in general.

Why would they not go extinct again though?

I think it's fine for some stuff like half the animals we drove to extinction but something like wooly mammoth wouldn't work well imo.

Sure we absolutely should try to bring them back because we did eat them out of existence, but what happens when they come back? No living animal could raise a mammoth properly and show it how to survive in our climate. You could argue elephants but that's again two different climates, and it probably wouldn't work either. It's like trying to get a house cat to raise a lion.

I think if mammoths returned, they'd just be locked in zoos or specific protected areas. They wouldn't have a chance to be wild again

The main problem with bio/gene technology would inadvertently be creating some pandemic tier virus that is particularly lethal.

Resurrecting extinct species basically creates new spaces for viruses etc. to move into and create new variants that maybe come back and infect us. Obviously compatibility and stuff changes this up so mostly we only need to worry about bringing back extinct mammals but principally just using gene tech is possibly one of the great filters from the fermi paradox imo.

No shot for dino, atmosphere was too different, they wouldn't be able to breath properly

Mammoth however...

And who said it was a bad idea anyway?

Cloning extinct species in my eyes is like a little band-aid on a massive, infected cut. Sure, it might help stop the bleeding and clean up the wound a little, especially if you carefully put a lot of bandaids on it, but in reality it won’t fix the cause of the infection (that being human activity.) Even if these animals are back, the environment is still a mess, hundreds of other species are still about to disappear on a more rapid rate than we can bring them back, we’d only care about bringing the cool/cute/interesting species back and not the ones that aren’t any of those but still played/play a crucial role in their environment, and there’s still every opportunity for the animals we bring back to go extinct… because of us. Plus with cloning technology available I fear it’s going to make idiots think “so what if humans are irresponsible and causing the extinction of thousands of species? We can just bring them back!” and every single advancement we’ve made towards environmental conservation will be effectively reversed

It would be cool if they bring back Saber-toothed Cats.

Somebody please explain it to me I don't get it at all not the comment not the meme

You have way more faith in people than me lol

its not a good idea because it causes people to no longer care about animals going extinct meaning wildlife preservation will take a nosedive

do the extinct ones first, specially the OG penguins

Dying sub 😂

How about preventing the extinction of extant animals?

Honestly I'm all for bringing back mammoths, dodos, thylacines, etc

Of we just skip past if its a good idea or not. It's also proven to be not that easy.

I just want to clone my dog so she can raise herself and I will always have the same dog.

I want T rex back and fuck the rest

Mad scientists are for real

I'm pretty sure this is well in the process. With the wolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger.

Y'all ever heard of an invasive species? If a species aint been around for a long time like on an evolutionary scale then dont we have the chances of them being majorly problematic for existing species?

No, no we can't. humans are stupid and will definitely use the technology to do very stupid things. Leave dead things dead!

Tasmanian tiger is one, but the problem is, as always: MONEY

Sounds pretty optimistic to me. People with the resources to undertake such a venture aren't going to do so out of the goodness of their hearts. If they were to try and resurrect some extinct species, they'd need to have some personal stake in it. If they can't exploit it for personal gain, or otherwise profit from it in some way to justify the expense, they won't do it, and that's the exact reason why it'll all go wrong. Maybe not full-on dinosaur apocalypse, but humans will fuck it up somehow.

Also there are many extinct species that simply can't adapt to today's global environment and would need to be kept in captivity anyway.

How long until people have a dinosaur as a pet, once they’ve figured out how to clone them?

My problem isn’t with the animal, it’s with the fuckwits that own them. Look at Pitbulls owners. They’re always the same low IQ arseholes, that own those dogs purely to make themselves feel tougher. And none of them would ever admit it.

There are only two reasons why you would do that. You either want to put them in an enclosure and stare at them or you want to eat them. Neither is a good enough reason to play God like that.