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by Ryan Smith on April 23rd, 2009

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Do you think that scientists will ever revive any extinct animals like Tasmanian Tigers or Wooly Mammoths?

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  • by Keysha on April 23rd, 2009

    Keysha

    They already have.

    "Pyrenean ibex: The world's first extinct mammal to be "resurrected" was a subspecies of the more widespread Spanish ibex, or mountain goat. The last known Pyrenean ibex was found dead in early 2000, but tissue samples that had been taken when it was alive led to a joint Spanish-French cloning program.

    After hundreds of failed attempts, a live Pyrenean ibex was born in January 2009, for the first time in more than a decade. The surrogate mother was a domestic goat. But the achievement was short-lived; the kid died 9 minutes after birth due to malformed lungs."

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  • by Cookie Monster Loves Cupcakes on April 23rd, 2009

    Cookie Monster Loves Cupcakes

    i believe it is possible--they have a cow thing i saw, but it died of a sickness, but still, the possibility of bringing back animals like that is very possible

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  • by Qatmeer1 on August 10th, 2009

    Qatmeer1

    The chances are better for cloning the Thylacine or "Tasmanian Tiger" or Tasmanian Wolf. The last known living Thylacinus died in captivity in 1936. By accident and fortunate for todays scientists is that 136years ago a fetus or Tasmanian Tiger offspring was preserved in alcohol as opposed to Formalin. Alcohol preserves DNA while the later, formalin destroys it. There is an actual group trying to prep a real cloning of the Thylacine. We must ask ourselves "why did this species go ectinct"? If we did return this extinct species, "will it survive and reproduce"? Is there still a niche,or place for this animal(a predator) to eke out a living without depending on our sheep,poultry,cattle,etc. as it's native prey was harder and harder to find due to diminished territory boundries. Maybe this clone will have a place in a zoo or facility, will we, as humans allow it space to ever survive outside of a protected environment? Has there been enough change in the cause of its extinction in less then 80 years to warrant the largest modern marsupial's return to it's former place in the food chain? As for the Wooley Mammoth, I don't know if there is sufficient DNA to complete cloning. I do know that in 1978 another frozen mammoth carcass was found almost intact. It's extinction was due to a climatic change. The Ice Age. I don't think this species will be able to reproduce due to adulthood to bear a mammoth offspring is more than 15 years. There needs to be more than just two or three breeding pairs to ensure success.

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  • by mirror I rorrim on April 23rd, 2009

    mirror I rorrim

    yes!

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  • by Vaporeongirl on November 16th, 2009

    Vaporeongirl

    I don't think it will ever happen. We don't have any Wooly Mammoth or T-Rex DNA and the Tasmanian Wolf DNA that we have is probably way too old to use.

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