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First ever extinct animal brought back to life by cloning
2009-02-01, 7:40 AM #1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4409958/Extinct-ibex-is-resurrected-by-cloning.html

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2009-02-01, 9:13 AM #2
I don't think a lifespan of seven minutes really warrants the title "resurrection".
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2009-02-01, 11:19 AM #3
Originally posted by TFA:
It has also increased the possibility that it will one day be possible to reproduce long-dead species such as woolly mammoths and even dinosaurs.

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2009-02-01, 11:52 AM #4
I remember reading about the early work for this in my biology textbook (which was published around 2003, if I recall). Apparently the last Pyrenean ibex was killed when a tree fell on it.
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2009-02-01, 12:26 PM #5
It also happened to be the unluckiest Ibex in the world too.
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2009-02-02, 12:55 AM #6
I don't get all the hoo ha over extinct animals.
2009-02-02, 2:06 AM #7
you are ****ting me robert?

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During the Pleistocene Era, a wombat growing up to 3 tonnes is believed to have existed.


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2009-02-02, 2:11 AM #8
Animals go extinct regardless of intervention of man.

It's kind of a natural process. It happens.

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2009-02-02, 2:52 AM #9
Species becoming extinct due to natural selection isn't a big deal. It's extinction due to abrupt human intervention that can have devastating effects on ecosystems.

In this case, I imagine the research is leading somewhere else, like cloning VELOCIRAPTORS.

Actually, velociraptors were rather small. A swift kick and maybe some arm guards to prevent bites and a human could totally take one.

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2009-02-02, 2:59 AM #10
Yes. It's the utahraptors you have to watch out for.

But Chriton knew better : Velociraptor sounds much, much cooler.
2009-02-02, 3:36 AM #11
Man should not play God like this. He intended those some 10,000 year old raptors and t-rexes and such to not survive.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-02-02, 5:07 AM #12
Originally posted by JM:
Yes. It's the utahraptors you have to watch out for.


Vare is thees "oo-tah" anyvay?
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2009-02-02, 8:41 AM #13
Originally posted by Emon:
Actually, velociraptors were rather small. A swift kick and maybe some arm guards to prevent bites and a human could totally take one.


One, sure. Didn't they hunt in packs? Fast teeth with razor claws...
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2009-02-02, 8:47 AM #14
Originally posted by Krokodile:
Man should not play God like this.


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2009-02-02, 8:58 AM #15
I love that 'play god' line.
When we wipe out a species, are we playing god? When a woman gives birth, is she playing god?
Or do you think god has a science lab up there, and he's genetically cloning stuff himself?
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2009-02-02, 9:23 AM #16
God creates ibex. God kills ibex. God creates man. Man kills God. Man creates ibex. Ibex dies of lung defect.
2009-02-02, 9:28 AM #17
Axis just took this thread to a whole new level
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2009-02-02, 10:10 AM #18
Originally posted by Axis:
God creates ibex. God kills ibex. God creates man. Man kills God. Man creates ibex. Ibex dies of lung defect.


Not before I get my ibex burger.
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2009-02-02, 3:40 PM #19
Actually, the ibex would very much need to be dead for you to have your burger. :colbert:
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2009-02-02, 4:17 PM #20
Originally posted by Roger Spruce:
Actually, the ibex would very much need to be dead for you to have your burger. :colbert:


REAL men eat LIVE ibex.
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2009-02-02, 4:51 PM #21
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
One, sure. Didn't they hunt in packs?

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2009-02-02, 4:57 PM #22
But remember from the movie that they flanked people 'cuz they're smart! The movies said so. They also talked to each other.
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2009-02-02, 5:15 PM #23
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2009-02-02, 5:21 PM #24
Originally posted by Rob:
Why change the weather just because you don't like it?


Because I don't like it. :colbert:
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2009-02-02, 8:17 PM #25
Yeah that question answered itself
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2009-02-02, 11:06 PM #26
The next cloned extinct animal should be the Rocky Mountain locust. They sometimes find swarms of them frozen in glaciers.

In more seriousness, they should try the Pleistocene bison. I hear they find a lot more of those in the tundra than mammoths.
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2009-02-02, 11:35 PM #27
I think they found some frozen mammoth that had frozen sperm that could be used to directly fertilize an elephant egg. Now that would be awesome. Mammophant. WOO
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