Passenger Pigeon Could Be Resurrected After A Century Of Extinction - Polidicks

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40910170]they should bring back dinosaurs[/QUOTE] No viable DNA, now way to grow viable specimens.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40910170]they should bring back dinosaurs[/QUOTE] Birds are Dinosaurs so wish granted.

[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;40911634]Birds are Dinosaurs[/QUOTE] [quote=dictionary]di·no·saur noun \ˈdī-nə-ˌsȯr\ 1 : any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era[/quote] No, they're not.

[QUOTE=Moustacheman;40905723]They played a huge role in WWI.[/QUOTE] Are you sure you aren't thinking of a messenger pigeon? [editline]5th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Negrul1;40912104]No, they're not.[/QUOTE] [quote=Wikipedia]Based on fossil and biological evidence, most scientists accept that birds are a specialized subgroup of theropod dinosaurs.[/quote]

I love de-extinction. I want to make it my goal in life to bring back as many animals as possible. To bad the DNA of dinosaurs is unusable for cloning. But I say it can be, if we were just able to reconstruct their genetic material artificially.

[QUOTE=kidkiller745;40910011]Most extinct animals i've heard of are really cool in one way or another.[/QUOTE] A lot of living animals are cool too.:smile:

for some reason I feel like I'll be able to see a wooly mammoth in my lifetime. The way technology is going about, it doesn't seem unrealistic.

Hopefully we can bring back Pinta Island Tortoises after. They only recently disappeared in June 2012.

They're extinct? I'm pretty sure I've seen alot of pigeons that look like that here in pittsburgh

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40905450]So they'll resurrect a passenger pigeon but not a wooly mammoth? Why? This pigeon has been dead a century, it obviously didn't serve any vital role. I don't get it.[/QUOTE] Its a lot easier to get a hold of that birds DNA since it only went extinct recently, wooly mammoths have been gone for 4,000 years or so. The DNA for them is just really degraded, although a mammoth was just found that had part of its body buried in ice and is in perfect condition as if it died yesterday. I think they want to start on something small and easier then a mammoth.

[QUOTE=Chrille;40912511]Based on fossil and biological evidence, most scientists accept that birds are a specialized subgroup of theropod dinosaurs.[/QUOTE] Just to think birds are evolved reptiles, amazing isn't it?

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40910170]they should bring back dinosaurs[/QUOTE] Okay, if you can be the lawyer

[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;40919947]Its a lot easier to get a hold of that birds DNA since it only went extinct recently, wooly mammoths have been gone for 4,000 years or so. The DNA for them is just really degraded, although a mammoth was just found that had part of its body buried in ice and is in perfect condition as if it died yesterday. I think they want to start on something small and easier then a mammoth.[/QUOTE]It's probably not the same people working on resurrecting passenger pigeons as woolly mammoths. A lot of Facepunch seems to think science is a hivemind, that if they work on one thing, it's because they don't want to work on the other thing.

[QUOTE=gamefreek76;40905722]Do we really want passenger pigeons back? They're not the most savory of animals.[/QUOTE] on the contrary they're delicious

good now we just have to make those god damn seagulls not come in swarms