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Scientists Launch Project to 'De-Extinct' the Dodo, Reintroduce to Natural Habitat

(Thanks to Asher Scheiner, Al Barkafski and The Perts)

Comments

[cfjk]

We shouldn't egg them on like that.

[MOTW]

Can we stop just making up words in the name of science? Reintroduce would work better than "de-extinctify". Y'all just sound ignorant when you do that.

[The Mirror]

Inquiring minds want to know whether the reintroduced bird will be gobsmacked.

[Rod]

Uh, don't they know birds are dinosaurs? And we all know what happens when you bring those back.

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

Dr. Ian Malcolm:

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Dodo Park doesn't have a dramatic ring to it.

[Ed.]

Obviously these scienticians don't read Bill Holbrook's "Safe Havens" comic strip, or they would already know that dodos are living on Mars.

[Meanie the Blue]

Gonna need to de-extinctify a few recipes soon.

[PirateBoy's DFC (Dodo Fried...)]

Allow me to predict the future:

"Tastes like chicken!"

[Ralph]

They may be able to recreate genetic approximations of these extinct animals, but they can't recreate their learned social behaviors. And in the case of Wooly Mammoths, their habitat, the Mammoth Steppe, no longer exists. These animals will probably be exhibition curiosities, not reintroductions into the wild.

[Pullet Surprise]

The Dodo is extinct? Hey, maybe someday there will be some person who will steal $1.5M of dodo wings. Or Buffalo dodo wings? Funny how dodo is just shy of doodoo - or will they genetically reconstruct this animal from dodo doodoo? Story at 10 pm.

[padraig]

From what I know of dodos, the only way one is going to meet a windshield is to be thrown at it. An action for which they have no natural defenses, apparently.