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[coyotegoth]

Scientists close to cloning mammoths. As much as the rational, Michael Crichton-reading part of my brain this that the whole idea of resurrecting dead species is a really bad idea on a host of levels, part of me wants to see a dodo. Or a passenger pigeon. Or...

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[stacyinthecity.livejournal.com]

Carolina Parakeet!

Oh my goodness, the number of recently (within say the past couple thousand years - humans would have interacted with them) extinct animals I'd want to resurrect is endless. Well, not technically. :)

BUT then I freak out and think we shouldn't play God.

BUT then I think about AUROCHS! And the TARPAN! And I get excited.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Tasmanian Tiger! I thought I saw one once and I would love for them to be back.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I bet mammoths would be TASTY. And knitters would love their hair! And I could finally prove my theory that the Bush family is distantly related to them (seriously: look at a mammoth skull in profile, then think about any of the Bush fellows).

I am still waiting for my disability assistance raptor though.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Just as long as they don't bring back Michael Crichton.

[melebeth]

Have you read the Eyre Affaire books by Jasper Fforde? Resurrecting the Dodo is a plot point.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

I have not, but I should. As I recall, dodos show up in the Dirk Gently book on time travel, too.

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

i can't think of any logical and valid reason to do this.
but also, oh my god how cool!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

...let's stop at that third "or," shall we?

There's not only Jurassic Park, otherwise, but there's also the Doomsday Book.

[justicevoles.livejournal.com]

What we need are a couple herds of Quagga.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Or passenger pigeons!

(Quagga have always reminded me of how they tend to paint horses to look like zebras for movie work {real zebras being difficult to work with}; a quagga looks as though it ran away halfway through the paint job :)