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If you could clone Extinct Animals

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  1. Gforrestersmith

    Gforrestersmith Well-Known Member

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    I recently saw Jurassic Park in 3D and thought of this- what if you could clone back extinct animals?

    Here's some examples of extinct animals and dinosaurs that are worth mentioning:

    Dinosaurs
    Woolly Mammoths
    Woolly Rhinos
    Smilodon
    Irish Elk
    Thylacine
    Quagga
    Short Faced Bear
    American Lion
    Dire Wolf
    Moa
    Terror Bird
    Dodo
    Great Auk
    Passenger Pigeon
    Carolina Parakeet
    Haast's Eagle
    Megalania
    Giant Crocodiles
    Titanboa
    Pterosaurs
    Giant Insects
    and Many others

    Have you seen the Series "Prehistoric Park"?

    If you could clone these animals, Which ones would you want to clone back? How would you like your Park designed? What Modern Animals would you like in the Park as well?
     
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    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    your examples of dinosaurs is "dinosaurs"?
     
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    You seem surprised by that given,this users extreme high quality of threads and posts in the past!!
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I'm actually more surprised by the rest of the list. If I was him I would have just put it like this:

     
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    If you could clone...

    Or even 'extinct stuff'
     
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    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    Now I understand your surprise,they went into more detail than normal:D
     
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    ... that has 'passed away'.;)
     
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    If you could clone...

    ...or died
     
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    There is also a thread about Extinct animals in zoos, Gforrestersmith.

    Personally I'd only clone back species that were killed off by Humans. Though just for the heck of it I'll say that I'd clone back Elasmotherium sibiricum, Ornithomimus velox, Tyrannosaurus rex, Phorusrhacos longissimus, Smilodon fatalis, some Arthropleura species, Teratornis merriami, along with some others including as many Human-made Extinct species as possible.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
    ThylacineAlive, 21 Jun 2013
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