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hi, i'd just like to hear what people think about the possibility that scientists will bring back extinct species,mainly the thylacine,but also what everyone thinks will happen,if say, they end up making a real life jurassic park? to tell you the truth, i'd be fascinated by it,but at the same time,probably crapping myself with the thought of waking up to a tyranosaur in the garden with the dogs kennel hanging out of his mouth! :eatsmiley i know that thats unlikely,but you cant help wondering. :bolt01:
 
Personally I've been looking into going to college for that exact reason, to work on cloning extinct species. I know, it's out there, but man, it would be a thrill of a life time.
 
Well the question I have is WOULD some of those larger dinosaurs even be able to survive? Some of the land forms were just too big and massive to feasibly have the musculature and bones be able to support the weight.

Which, of course, brings up the question of how could they have survived in the past.................. :confused:
 
which they didn't,really,did they? but a lot of the big sauropodsspent alot of time in the water,as it helped to support their weight.any way,what do you think about scientists cloning the old tazzy tiger from a pickled pup? :hehe:
 
snake5007 said:
which they didn't,really,did they? but a lot of the big sauropodsspent alot of time in the water,as it helped to support their weight.any way,what do you think about scientists cloning the old tazzy tiger from a pickled pup? :hehe:
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I think that is what they say to try to compensate for the puzzle. But look at the feet of something like an Apatosaurus (brontosaurus). Those are not the feet of an animal that spends nearly all of it's time in the water. They estimate that a Apatosaurus weighed 35 tons. Try taking ANYTHING weighing that much into marshland and watch it sink into the mud. If this animal had webbed feet or fins, showing it was mostly an amphibious creature, then yeah, I would buy that story.
 
well,elephants have got similar shaped feet,and spend some time in water,in fact elephants have been seen swimming a couple of miles offshore!but,back to the sauropods,a big animal,in theory,and going on skeletal structure,should have had the muscle to support it's own body weight.The fact that scientists or archeologists think that sauropods spent a lot or some of the time in water i think is based on watching elephants and hippos.but,then again, no one will ever see a living one unless someone decides to try and bring one back.This raises the issue of "is it a real dinosaur,or just a fake monster created in a lab?"Because you might have something that looks the part,but will it act the part? i think the way to answer that question would be to build a time machine and go back and take a look.
 
sorry, i forgot to mention,i was looking at some crypto websites and found out that the australian museum that was planning on trying to clone the thylacine have given up for the moment, because the dna from the "pickled pup" was to fragmentary but i believe their looking for other sources of thylacine dna.to be honest,i wish them the best of luck! i'd love to see one in the flesh!
 
snake5007 said:
sorry, i forgot to mention,i was looking at some crypto websites and found out that the australian museum that was planning on trying to clone the thylacine have given up for the moment, because the dna from the "pickled pup" was to fragmentary but i believe their looking for other sources of thylacine dna.to be honest,i wish them the best of luck! i'd love to see one in the flesh!
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Giving up :ack2: :ack2:.
That's a shame, hope they can get some good dna somewhere.
 
Here is another angle...maybe there are some left out there some where? I mean there have been sightings and lots of reports of sightings. They were shy creatures anyway. Think about how elusive some herps are. Thylacines could in theory be hiding out in very small numbers...what about hairs from stuffed exhibits?
 
When man plays God it can bring about horrendous results. While, I just like you guys, am intrigued, it also scares me. There are simply too many what if's. Scary thoughts......

Griz
 
It is a very interesting thing yet not very cost effective. Without proper backing I doubt this will ever take off.

And one thing to take into account when doing something like this would be what disease you might bring back that an extinct animal carried and things like that. In bringing one species back you might have a huge "oops" and kill another five off.
 
maybe related, maybe not but

has any of you maybe old enough to remember the drug " Thalomid " usage pre and during plus after of world war ll ? It was used n England but made its way here and has been used but now in an increase of usage. It had mass birth defects on children that normally died of the use by mothers. Especially in England and GB. The defects were of webbed limbs and digits, no limbs, reptilian and amphibian looking aberrations and many of these " Thalomid babies " were on display at our American State Fairs and roving carnivals for decades until some agency stepped in and outlawed the showing of these babies in pickled solutions in jars ! It sent many of us children, adults viewing these home with nightmares. Another shocker that has been news worthy and again not necessarily on track of this original post is the state of what around the globe still has in the way of very deadly past diseases and viruses like TB, Polio, plague tenements of past, etc. Noting that most of these had had their day with being wiped out in treatment and cures but to think we and other countries still has these in some form ( frozen for one ), just makes me wonder..........sorry if off topic....
 
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Noting that most of these had had their day with being wiped out in treatment and cures but to think we and other countries still has these in some form ( frozen for one ), just makes me wonder..........sorry if off topic....
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Or worse. Changing the genetic structure of such diseases to produce weapons grade agents to use in a "line spray" or bomb or some type. You can thank Russia for that and not being able to keep its scientists after the fall of communism.
 
Griz said:
When man plays God it can bring about horrendous results. While, I just like you guys, am intrigued, it also scares me. There are simply too many what if's. Scary thoughts......

Griz
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I second that, but we played God by killing them off.

I think it would be awesome, and I think brining back certain species, recently extinct species would be all set, but dinos, hmmm. I doubt they would survive. Lets work on Dodos or like Passenger Pigeons.
 
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