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Australian Scientists Plan to Resurrect the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger-An ambitious new project aims to bring an iconic marsupial species back from the dead.
CNet ^ | 3-1-22 | Jackson Ryan

Posted on 03/02/2022 7:10:25 AM PST by SJackson

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Camels, cats, rabbits and God knows how many other imported species fit into Oz's ecosystem.

If we are lucky, it will kill off the camels, feral cats and rabbits. The trick is convincing an apex predator not to go after other imported species, such as cattle, sheep, and humans.

21 posted on 03/02/2022 7:52:58 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: SJackson

Researcher. Lab tech, did you give the right RNA sequences to the subject?

Lab tech:. I thought you said DNA!

And that’s how Godzilla was born.

5.56mm


22 posted on 03/02/2022 7:56:23 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: All

Bring back the velociraptors!! They look cool.


23 posted on 03/02/2022 8:04:26 AM PST by BipolarBob (The roar of the masses could be "Let's Go Brandon".)
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To: SJackson

I remember Dolly the sheep disastor.


24 posted on 03/02/2022 8:07:30 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SJackson

It would be great to have the technology not just to undo some of the damage humans have done, but also to preserve endangered species. In the case of the Woolly Mammoth, it might be easier given how closely Asian Elephants are related to them. In that case we could take Asian elephant embryos and splice in a few genes here and there rather than having to build the code almost from scratch.


25 posted on 03/02/2022 8:09:48 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: PLMerite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CcPHF7qOc

Forrest Galante thinks there might be tigers in Papua New Guinea. I want to hear the update on this story. Hopefully he can get boots on the ground and investigate further.


26 posted on 03/02/2022 8:18:52 AM PST by CollegeRepublican
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To: KrisKrinkle

D.C. is full of Neanderthals.

Bring back T. rex!


27 posted on 03/02/2022 8:45:16 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: bgill

“Bring back T. rex!”

Haven’t there been three or four movies demonstrating why that isn’t a good idea? :)


28 posted on 03/02/2022 8:50:56 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: bgill
Bring back T. rex!

And Who's Next!

29 posted on 03/02/2022 8:51:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SJackson

Other than for a laugh, what’s the argument for bringing back evolutionary dead ends? Are we trying to save branches of human genealogy that didn’t produce heirs? Should we? Who will teach this creature how to be what it is? We’re not playing God but we are creating Adam and Eve for species?


30 posted on 03/02/2022 8:57:35 AM PST by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban)
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To: CollegeRepublican

I had a buddy worked there. The biggest rule there was: Do NOT leave the camp. The rascals will get you! The rascals being the indigenous people (seriously, cannibals and head hunters) who didn’t appreciate modern men invading their forest.


31 posted on 03/02/2022 9:06:36 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks SJackson.

32 posted on 03/02/2022 9:26:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
So you bring back an extinct apex predator and release it into the wild. What could go wrong?

Let's ask the outdoorsmen of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming about how much they like the reintroduction of wolves.

33 posted on 03/02/2022 9:26:58 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Bob434

That proves they are related to Bigfoot!
Both share that ability!


34 posted on 03/02/2022 9:28:05 AM PST by Reily
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To: KrisKrinkle
uhh... CroMagnon is pretty much still here!

and if you have Northern European ancestry you've got about 3% Neanderthal.

Which is why I want reparation from you CroMaggys!!!
40,000 years of genocidal oppression is enough!

35 posted on 03/02/2022 9:32:04 AM PST by Reily
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Resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian Tiger... to do what? Exist in a zoo for the enjoyment of school children? To release into the wild? If it’s that, then they’d better consider why the animal went extinct in the first place?

It’s the same resistance to intellectual thought that leads to the reintroduction of wolves in North American ranges near where livestock are reared.


36 posted on 03/02/2022 9:52:31 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Reily

Lol- there are “theories” (actuslly they are just undeveloped hypothesis. They don’t even rise to the ,even of theory really) that Bigfoot is an a,in, and that is why they are ‘so elusive’

Been watching “monsters in America’s where they highlight legends and “sightings” and one of the shows was onmthe idea that Bigfoot is an alien because folks claim to have seen them just materialize then dissappear at will.

The show is nonsense, but fun to watch what some folks beleive. 99% of the people in the episodes of different supposed monsters siml,simp, misidentified ehat they saw, but swore up and down that they are expe3irheced enough that they couldn’t possibly have misidentified. Several of,the shows were of folks partying in remote cabins. Me thinks they ate the brown acid


37 posted on 03/02/2022 9:57:11 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Tallguy

[[Resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian Tiger... to do what?]]

Poop! Tasmanian tiger poo is highly sought after for facials and fertilizer. You too can sport tiger stripes if you so desire.

I beleive though it went extinct because of Hunting because hunters and tigers went after the same quarry.


38 posted on 03/02/2022 9:59:44 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SJackson

Can you imagine how the guys who own those high-fence hunting preserves in Texas must be champing at the bit for scientists to resurrect the woolly mammoth so they can sell a mammoth hunting experience? And how hunters like Ted Nugent and Joe Rogan must be champing at the bit to be able to kill a mammoth and have it stuffed and mounted and stand it in the foyer of their house?

And won’t the bunny huggers be apoplectic??!


39 posted on 03/02/2022 8:02:56 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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"Well, that's good. What DNA did you use to cross this with?"

"This one here. Says it belongs to 'Abby'"...

40 posted on 03/02/2022 8:18:07 PM PST by Billthedrill
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