[Lazamataz]

I’d prefer they bring back the Dodo.

It’s a fun animal, goofy looking, very tame, and they have soft-tissue to extract the DNA from.

[SJackson]

Whether they were edible short of starvation is up for debate, which reintroduction could settle. Docile, they'd make great farm animals. Dodoburgers. The government could encourage Dodo farms since they don't cause global warming like ruminants.

I'd go with the Arabian Ostrich. We know they taste good, lay large eggs, if extinct only since the 1960s, and an insurance company could use them as a mascot. And they probably share lots of genes with other ostriches.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And apparently very tasty.

[9422WMR]

The passenger pigeon!