I do not need to see a woolly mammoth in my headlights at night.
…there are now biologists hoping to recover some of the celebrities in the record of lost species — the woolly mammoth, the dodo, perhaps even the legendary North American passenger pigeon. On Thursday, researchers for the de-extinction company Colossal announced a remarkable discovery: they claim to have recovered a near-complete genome for the thylacine, the doglike “Tasmanian tiger” whose last living exemplar died in captivity in 1936
We’ve seen this movie and we all know how it ends.
I don’t see any issue with this, as a matter of fact, I think its pretty cool.
Woolly mammoths roaming the plains west of Hudson Bay would be super cool, I don’t care how many Jeff Goldblums you throw at me.
First Nations would re-extinct them pretty fast.
I need to jacklight a mastadon.
Population management is easy.
It’s the little animals like viruses, gobies and zebra mussels that are nuisances.
I’ve watched 4 different large fauna repopulation plans in my life in Ontario, Canada Geese, wild turkeys, elk and pheasant. Two of them pretty much failed, turkeys struggle and Canada geese are the only successful one.
Bring back all of the big fauna.
Turkeys, wild one that is, are all over southwestern Ontario. The two legged political ones breed like flies however.
Wild Hogs have made a nice comeback.
I’m here for the Wooly mammoth reintroduction. I would vacation in Nunavut solely for that.
Passenger pigeon went extinct for a reason.
Didn’t email cause the extinction of the passenger pigeon (and the USPS)? And didn’t text messages cause the near-extinction of email?
Extinct animals once reintroduced would face the same pressures that caused extinction in the first place.
Judging by the speed that Siberian-Canadians drove North American megafauna into extinction, they must have been friggin’ delicious. I am completely comfortable with prairie farmers raising pretty much any food animal they feel they can.
No, no, no! First Nations were stewards of the environment don’t you know? /
The most recent conjecture was a celestial event around the Younger Drias epoch (about 12,000 AD) which lead to the extinction of mega fauna. Of course that doesn’t account for specimens found that were dated as recently as 4000 BC and remains showing evidence of butchering. So that does suggest some human component, but not of First Nations. /s
Isn’t extinction simply part of evolution? Doesn’t evolution select winners and losers? Yeah, the situational moralists on the atheist left have trouble with that fact of evolution. I guess they didn’t think that part thru before jumping on the evolutionary train. Not to worry … leftists ALWAYS select themselves for extinction. See: Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, Adolph, Che …
“Doesn’t evolution select winners and losers?”
Millions of tranny’s disagree.
Thylacines might not be extinct.
https://youtu.be/RXCEsAh5rdI?si=QfMaB-H77LRq3rr9
Also, looking forward to the wooly mammoth plague they revive that takes out all livestock.
Man will soon be extinct if we continue trying to give everyone everything and then tell them they can’t have it.
Nature will fix what we refuse to acknowledge.